What is the difference between .x3d and .ply?
- Extension
- .x3d
- .ply
- Category
- 3D
- 3D
- Developer
- The Web3D Consortium
- Stanford University
- Description
- X3D (Extensible 3D) is a royalty-free open standard file format used to represent 3D computer graphics. It is used to store and interchange 3D model data, including surface geometry, color, animation, and metadata. X3D files are built on the XML standard, and can be viewed and edited with a variety of 3D modeling programs.
- It is a 3D model file format developed by Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory. PLY is mainly used to describe objects in a collection of polygons.
- MIME Type
- application/x3d+xml
- application/octet-stream
- Wikipedia
- .x3d on Wikipedia
- .ply on Wikipedia