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References
A very useful WWW address for information on file formats is currently found through the EC Open Information Interchange Initiative which is part of the IMPACT 2 programme. This contains useful briefings on various standards and updates of various workshops. At the time of writing this seems to be up to date and the challenge will be to ensure this is maintained. As with all information on the WWW, sustaining the accuracy of the information in a changing world is not an easy task. The dominance of the information is towards ISO standards though a number of industry standards are also included.
The reference page is:
http://www2.echo.lu/impact/oii/oiistand.html
A further source of information to read and to contribute to is a resource which was initiated through AGOCG. This is found on the AGOCG WWW pages. This allows searching through the database and allows readers to add to the information in the database.
Index to Multimedia Information Sources edited by: Simon Gibbs and Gabor Szentivanyi can be found at:
official home: http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo
A useful general book on file formats is:
Graphics File Formats, James D Murray & William van Ryper, O'Reilly Associates Inc, 1994, ISBN 1-56592-058-9
Information on other formats and resources quoted in this paper can be seen in the references below.
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Acrobat |
see: Adobe; Smith, 1993 |
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AGOCG |
or contact the author of this paper for more information |
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ARGUS |
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Casher & Rzepa, 1996 |
Casher, O. and Rzepa, H.S., The Molecular Object Toolkit: A New Generation of VRML Visualization Tools for use in Electronic Journals, Proceedings of the Eurographics UK Conference, 1996 Also available at: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/eg/ see other papers by the same authors at this site on the use of WWW related tools in chemistry |
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CGM |
Information Processing Systems - Computer Graphics Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture descriptive information', ISO/IEC 8632, Parts 1-4, 1992 and Amendments 1 & 2 see also Henderson & Mumford |
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CGRM |
Information technology - Computer Graphics - Reference Model, ISO 11072, 1992. |
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CORBA |
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DWF |
see Autodesk |
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Envoy |
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FIF |
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Gershon and Brown |
Gershon, N. and Brown, J., Computer Graphics and Visualization in the Global Information Infrastructure, special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, March 1996, p60-75 |
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GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format Programming Ref., Ver. 89a, CompuServe Inc., 1990. |
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GKS |
Information Processing Systems - Graphical Kernel System (GKS)', ISO/IEC 7942, 1985 and 1994 (new version of GKS) |
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Greenough, 1996 |
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Hardwick 1996 |
Hardwick, M. et al, Sharing Manufacturing Information in Virtual Enterprises, Communications of the ACM, Feb 96, Vol 39, no 2, p 46-54 also see: |
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Henderson, L.R., Mumford, A.M., The CGM Handbook, Academic Press, 1993. ISBN 0-12-510560-6 |
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JPEG |
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KINDS |
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Kodak Photo-CD |
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MPEG |
MPEG-2 FAQ: http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Visualization/Education/cs418/MPEG/mpeg2.html |
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see Adobe |
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PHIGS |
Information processing systems - Computer graphics - Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System (PHIGS), ISO/IEC 9592, 1989. |
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PNG |
http://quest.ipl.nasa.gov/PNG/
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-png.html
Wegner, T., A PNG Format Primer, EXE: The Software Developers' Magazine, Vol 10,3, August 1995, p 21-27 |
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PostScript |
Adobe Systems Inc., PostScript Language Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley, 1985 |
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Quicktime |
downloadable viewer: |
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Smith, P.N. et al, Journal publishing with Acrobat - the CAJUN project, Electronic Publishing, Vol 6(4), 1-13, Dec 1993, John Wiley. |
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STEP |
Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP, ISO/IEC 10303 |
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SVF |
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Testing |
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Test WWW testing http://www.uark.edu/~wrg/ test patterns http://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/~lsr/cgm.htm CGM testing |
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TIFF |
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translators |
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UK VR-SIG |
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Vitrus |
+1 919 467 9700 |
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VRML |