The Graphics File Format Page (3D specs + Anim)

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3D Geometry Specifications:

3DS - The 3D Studio Format

MLI - 3D Studio's Material-Library Format

BYU - Movie BYU file format
DEM - USGS Standards for Digital Elevation Models [Link]
DXF - Used by Autodesk's AutoCAD

DXF Release 13 specification [Link]
DXF Release 12 specification [Link]
DXF Release 10 specification [Link]
Creating DXF files

FIG - Used by REND386/AVRIL
FLT - MulitGen Inc.'s OpenFlight format [link]
GLC - File format information
HDF - Hierarchical Data Format [Link]
IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
IV - Open Inventor File Format Info [Link]
LWLO, LWOB & LWSC - Lightwave 3D file formats

LWLO - Lightwave 3D Layered Object
LWOB - Lightwave 3D Object
LWSC - Lightwave 3D Scene

MAZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE
MGF - Materials and Geometry Format [Link]
MSDL - Manchester Scene Description Language [Link]
NFF & ENFF - (Extended) Neutral File Format

NFF - Scene description language by Eric Haines
NFF - Used by Sense8's WorldToolKit
ENFF - Extensions to Eric Haines' NFF

OBJ - Wavefront Object Files
OFF - A 3D mesh Object File Format
OOGL - Object Oriented Graphics Library
PLG - Used by REND386/AVRIL
POV - Persistence of Vision ray-tracer
QD3D - Apple's QuickDraw 3D Metafile format [Link]
TDDD - Used by the Imagine & Turbo Silver ray-tracers
VIZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VRML97 ISO Specification [Link]
Version 1.0 Specification / [Link]

WLD - Used by REND386/AVRIL

Moving Image Resources:

MPEG - Moving Picture Expert Group

The MPEG-1 Archive and The MPEG-2 Archive [Link]
Lance Ladic's Info on the MPEG Format [Link]
MPEG Resources on the Web [Link]
MPEGe Lib: A library to help create MPEG movies [Link]

QuickTime - Info on QuickTime Movies

Apple's QuickTime Continuum [Link]
Lance Ladic's Info on the QuickTime Format [Link]
QuickTime players for a number of platforms [Link]

FLI/FLC - Autodesk's Flic Animation format

Flic format description
Further Flic format description

AVI - Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave format

Lance Ladic's Info on the AVI Format [Link]
OpenDML AVI File Format Extensions V1.0 [Link]
Short Overview of AVI features [Link]

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N.B. If you are interested in graphics viewers/converters for a particular format, please check the File Formats FAQ and the Graphics Utils' Site & Version FAQ.

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