File formats

[Doug Montalbano <Doug_Montalbano -at- CC -dot- CHIRON -dot- COM>]

     OBdisclaimer about receiving List in Digest form

     One place to start would be

     Brian's (brian -at- bloomington -dot- in -dot- us) list of many of the most common
     image file formats. "Since there are literally hundreds of various
     image file formats out there, this file doesn't pretend to list ALL of
     them," sez he. This page also contains information about what
     conversion filters support each format. He lists image, 3-D, and movie
     formats.
     Point your browser to
     http://www.octobernet.com/~brian/graphics/image.formats.html

     Another page containing 2D Bitmap Specifications, 3D Geometry &
     Animation Specifications, and Utils, Info, Source, FAQs and URLs is at
     http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx

     Max gives a list in download form (MSWord)of file formats:
     http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/filelist/filefmts.doc

     A subsidiary of the latter page (
     http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/utils-hi.html
     ) contains utilities for different formats.

     As for when and why to use them, I hope someone else will pipe up just
     about now.  Perhaps Arlen?

     Doug

     doug_montalbano -at- cc -dot- chiron -dot- com