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Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:07:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Stefan Gustavson wrote:
The LDraw file format, which is at the heart of it all,
is a static scene description language. I think we should
start attacking the problem there, and I would suggest
moving on to a more modern (but of course compatible)
file format, perhaps based on XML which has proven itself
in a large number of applications, quite a few of them
related to computer graphics.

XML has poor human-readibility.
The text format should be accepted before it has a GUI front-end, and that can
be only if it's readeable enough.
Anyway, who writes the interpreter decides the format.

Considerations,

Damien



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(...) Poor XML has poor human-readibility. XML in general is fine. <part> <no> 13 </no> <pos> 10,12, 15 </pos> </part> is quite readable. (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) Right. When free software exists and is good enough to outperform commercial solutions in some applications, it will of course be used. The extremely successful combination Apache/PHP springs to mind - lots of web sites who could easily afford (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)

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