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Format

YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language) File

Summary

Name
YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language) File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1663
Format type
Text (Structured)
Description
SGI YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language) is a description language used for storing 3D object data to disk files. YAODL is an obsolete format created specifically for the Silicon Graphics Powerflip demo program, but it is not widely supported by SGI. The format is an example of a basic vector-object description language and is stored in plain text (ASCII) format.
Note
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/SGI_YAODL http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/yaodl/
File extensions
ydl
Source
The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Internal signatures

YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language) File

Note
BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: '#YAODL, then 0x0D0A'

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
2359414F444C0D0A
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V105

    Release date
    29 June 2022

    YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language) File: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.

    YAODL (Yet Another Object Description Language) File: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.