Contributor artman Posted January 28, 2010 Contributor Share Posted January 28, 2010 A new format to store .obj and .stl http://openctm.sourceforge.net/?page=about An STL file can usually be compressed to 5-6% of its original size. That is a pretty scary ratio. The Xnormal guy added support to import compressed meshes in this format. He says a 10 mil .obj can be brought to 1 MB with absolutely no loss of details. I simply dont understand,its just too much a difference in size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Roger_K Posted January 29, 2010 Advanced Member Share Posted January 29, 2010 its easy really STL and OBJ are ASCII files, where as this fileformat seems to be both binary and compressed. Ascii files store data in a less efficient manner than Binary and are also usually pretty much human readable which means the end up holding a lot of waste data Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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