Data Format - NFF (Haines)

Purpose and General Description

The Haines Neutral File Format (NFF) is designed as a minimal scene description language. The language was designed to test various rendering algorithms and efficiency schemes, and is used to describe the geometry and basic surface characteristics of objects, the placement of lights, and the viewing frustum for the eye.

Packages/Toolkits that output it

C program source for converting DXF to NFF
InterChange converts from a large number of formats including: 3DS, DXF, Sense8 NFF.

Packages/Toolkits that input it

A Conversion script from NFF to rayshade using Awk
InterChange converts to a large number of formats including: 3DS, DXF, Inventor, POV, Renderman RIB, Renderware RWX, Sense8 NFF and VRML.

Functionality

NFF file format - document written by Eric Haines

Comments

Shell archive from Eric Haines

FORMATS

Information last updated on 23 August 1996

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