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From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for general IFF floating point and coordinate point formats
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 09:30:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 09:30:34 1987
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References: <561@radio.toronto.edu>
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <561@radio.toronto.edu> cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>
> We're working on an application that needs to save floating point data
>in an IFF file, and we want to make the floating point format as
>general as possible. Does such a standard way of representing floating
>point values in IFF files already exist? Does anyone have any ideas
>about what it should be?
>[]
> Also, is there already a structured graphics FORM, and if not what
>would people like to see in it?

  No standards exist yet, but there has been ongoing discussion in our IFF
conference on BIX (amiga.dev/iff) dealing with storage of floating point
and also storage of 3-D objects.  Most of the big 3-D Amiga software developers
are involved, but nothing concrete has developed yet.  You may be able to
reach some agreement on the floating point there though.  

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