COB

Revision as of 21:54, 10 May 2009

Title(s): COB, Caligari trueSpace file format

Version ID: v6.0

Date released: 2002-07

Date: - Date the format was created (YYYY-MM-DD)

Creator(s): Caligari Corporation

Contributor(s): Caligari Corporation

Relationships: - Relationships that the engineering format has with organizations, other formats, etc.

• Previous Version(s): - Any engineering format that is a previous version format of this one.

• Contains: - Any engineering format that is contained by this format.

• Syntax Format(s): - Any syntax formats that the engineering format may use.

• Family Format(s): COA

Description: trueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual Earth.

History:

Example(s): http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/truespace/cob

Identifier: Caligari Corporation

Documentation: COB Documentation

File Extensions: COB

Applications: http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace/tS75/Brochure/Intro.asp

• Native application(s): http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace/tS75/Brochure/Intro.asp

• Interoperable applications: Engineering Format Application Template - Applications which can read or write files of this format, but are not native applications for the format.

Magic numbers: - Unique identifying characters at the beginning of files for this engineering format.

The header consists of 32 bytes as follows: Size Type Value Description 9 bytes char "Caligari " Identifies Caligari file 6 bytes char "V00.01" Version number of file. This document describes version 00.01 files 1 byte char "A" for ASCII or "B" for binary Specifies whether file is in ASCII format or binary format 2 bytes char "LH" for little endian or "HL" for big endian Intel based machines are little endian and currently all Caligari files are too. 13 bytes char " " Leave as blank spaces 1 byte char "\n" Newline character Newline

title {Untitled BRL-CAD Database}

units mm
attr set {_GLOBAL}
put {ellipse} ehy V {0 0 -1000} H {0 0 2000} A {0 1 0} r_1 1000 r_2 500 c 500
put {pipe} pipe V0 { 0 0 -1000 } O0 500 I0 250 R0 500 V1 { 0 0 1000 } O1 500 I1 250 R1 500

Format(s): - The MIME file types.

Rights: Proprietary

Sustainability Factors:

• Standardization: Proprietary

• Adoption: - Information about how this format has been adopted by other organizations.

• • Licensing and patent claims: - Any licenses or patent claims that the engineering format makes.

• Self-documentation: - Any self-documentation capabilities of the format.

• External dependencies: - Anything that the format depends on outside of its control to function.

• Technical protection considerations: - Any considerations that are necessary when it comes to technical protection.

Typical use: 3D modeling

File classification:

• Type {Binary, Text}: Binary
• Raster data:
  • Raster data 2D:
    • Is Supported: yes
    • Description:
  • Raster data 3D:
    • Is Supported: yes
    • Description:
• Geometric representation:
  • Implicit representation:
    • Implicit surfaces:
      • Is Supported: no
      • Description:
    • Implicit curves:
      • Is Supported: no
      • Description:
    • Point set:
      • Is Supported: yes
      • Description:
  • Mesh:
    • Manifold surface meshes:
      • Is Supported: no
      • Description:
    • Manifold volume meshes:
      • Is Supported: no
      • Description:
    • Non-manifold meshes:
      • Is Supported: no
      • Description:
  • Parametric representation:
    • Parametric surfaces:
      • Is Supported: no
      • Description:
    • Parametric curves:
      • Is Supported: no
      • Description:
  • Contour sets:
    • Is Supported: no
    • Description:
  • NURBS:
    • Is Supported: yes
    • Description:
• Multi-resolution models:
  • Is Supported: yes
  • Description:
• Dynamics:
  • Kinematics:
    • Is Supported: yes
    • Description:
  • Assembly:
    • Is Supported: no
    • Description:
  • Force(s):
    • Is Supported: no
    • Description:
• Boundary representation
  • Manifold surface boundary representations:
    • Is Supported: no
    • Description:
  • Manifold volume boundary representations:
    • Is Supported: no
    • Description:
  • Non-manifold boundary representations:
    • Is Supported: no
    • Description:
• Material transparency:
  • Is Supported: yes - Is the feature supported in the engineering format?
  • Description:

References: - A list of references regarding any aspects of this engineering format; any reading material supplemental to this page.