From: Michail Vidiassov <master@iaas.msu.ru>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:58:28 +0400 (MSD) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0906052340400.6092@MacBook-2.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2971E4.1070001@nibua-r.org>
Dear Renaud,
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Renaud Aubin wrote:
>> Asymptote may be a better choice since it supports newer PRC 3D
>> format, that is much richer in features and has better prospects when
>> it comes to support and development by Adobe.
> Ouch, another new 3D format! This will never end. I bet no valuable Open
> Source modeler (i.e. blender) support this one. The fact that asy
> supports PRC is good but I have no illusion about the conclusion of the
> 3d formats' war (just an endless pain for developpers)...
IMHO the major difference is that Adobe Reader is a 3D viewer with quite a
userbase and lots of support resources behind. While the failure of 3D
community to accept U3D as 3D JPEG is deplorable, PRC prospects in Adobe
seem bright - they have bought the format together with the authors, make
noises about submitting it to ISO, released documentation...
>From my experience of work with U3D, writing an exporter turned out to be
not that difficult, since for U3D there is VRML-like intermediate text
format, but figuring out what are the limitations of Adobe viewer takes a
lot of time.
I do not remember if that applies to Blender, but googling showed me that
in 2006-2007 people asked questions in lists/forums of 3D software
pieces about 3D PDF output, but neither users were interested, nor
developers excited.
Sincrely, Michail
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-05 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 16:14 Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 17:32 ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 18:02 ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 19:21 ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 19:28 ` Renaud Aubin
2009-06-05 19:58 ` Michail Vidiassov [this message]
2009-06-05 20:15 ` luigi scarso
2009-06-06 4:07 ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-06 7:43 ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 21:39 ` Hans Hagen
2009-06-06 18:06 ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-07 10:59 ` Hans Hagen
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