Re: [vwrap] vwrap Digest, Vol 11, Issue 24

[Morgaine <[e-mail]>]

COLLADA is not *only* an interchange format, despite being defined for that
purpose originally.  Many applications now use it as their native graphics
file format, the archetypal case being Google Earth.  I expect such use to
become ever more common in the future.


Morgaine.





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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Dzonatas Sol <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Remember, that COLLADA is only an exchange format, not the format for which
> something is being rendered from or to. Please make sure your semantic usage
> of such at least complies when you try to argue with it.
>
>
> Morgaine wrote:
>
>> This is the last vestige of where that term is commonly encountered, as
>> *Service Level Semantic Interoperability*.� Is it relevant to us?� Yes, a
>> little.� For example, it would do us no good to transport Collada meshes
>> from an asset service to a client that tries to render them as some other
>> graphics format --- that would create a semantic mishap, because one party
>> thinks that the items means one thing and another party applies a different
>> semantic.� So yes, there is a little more for us to consider here, but it's
>> not a lot.� In most part we have already stated the solution every time that
>> we have mentioned MIME types for describing content.� This is mostly a
>> solved problem.
>>
>>
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