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Name Universal Scene Description ASCII File
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Identifiers PUID:  fmt/1905
Wikidata QID Identifier:  Q105856757
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Classification Text (Structured)
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Description Universal Scene Description is a framework developed by Pixar. It is described as a system for encoding scalable, hierarchically organised, static and time-sampled data, for the primary purpose of interchanging and augmenting the data between cooperating digital content creation applications. USDA files are plain ASCII and are also known as crate files.
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Source The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration
Source date 18 Aug 2023
Source description 02/2024 (v.117): corrected Wikidata entry. Submitted by Yale University Library.
Last updated 08 Feb 2024
Note http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Universal_Scene_Description
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