XVL is a lightweight 3D file format for
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics, sometimes called Computer-generated imagery, CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional Computer-generated imagery, computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian coor ...
data. XVL is developed by Lattice Technology Inc.
Like
U3D and other open and standard 3D formats, XVL supports compression of 3D data. The company claims compression rates of between 1:50 - 1: 200 for typical mesh objects. After a registration, a closed source,
Windows
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only, viewer for XVL files can be downloaded from the company site.
See also
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U3D – an
ECMA standard open format for 3D data that supports compression.
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glTF - a
Khronos Group
The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computat ...
file format for 3D Scenes and models.
References
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External links
lattice3d– the company developing the XVL 3D format
3D graphics file formats