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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I agree with Alexis. I think I've heard of this library before, and it looks cool, but I think its main use case could be distributing models for commercial applications (it's common
for games for be 50 GB or more nowadays, so this could help with the download size).
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<div>Also this person makes a great point about OBJ and PLY: https://www.reddit.com/r/GraphicsProgramming/comments/5oc6x8/compression_algorithm_for_3d_graphics_googles/</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I was not thinking of runtime but load time: right now meshes are really slow to read, which is a reason why Nich has been investigating Assimp.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I've tried to do cloth simulation with remote interaction using discrete cosine transforms in the past but got mixed results! Draco could be worth trying.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Might not be useful for regular applications in imstk. The only use I can see is for simulation in server-client setting for telesurgery!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Nowadays with a good SSD it is usually faster to have uncompressed data and read it from disk, than compressed data that needs to be inflated.<br>
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<div><a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/introducing-draco-compression-for-3d.html" target="_blank">https://opensource.googleblog.<wbr>com/2017/01/introducing-draco-<wbr>compression-for-3d.html</a></div>
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<div>Anybody heard of it before?<br>
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