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.