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From: jamison@boulder.ColoState.EDU (Jamie Gulden)
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Subject: Re: Scene Description Standard
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Date: 1 May 91 19:45:55 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.003612.16050@mks.com> david@mks.com (David Rowley) writes:
>One reason for this is
>the lack of a standard modelling format.
>
>Would it make sense to define a new, say text-based, format to describe
>a world, such that a renderer could use as much information from it
>as possible, and chuck the rest ?
>

   Take a look at the renderman interface specification.  Thats basically
what it was designed for.