


For several years we were finding that a lot of support telephone calls and emails that came in were related to the ILDA file format, why doesn't this work, why doesn't that work, the fact that it "loses" data, etc. we do not charge a "per incidence" support fee). We must support everything we sell, essentially forever, and with no further payment from the client (i.e. The relationship is not as simple as - you buy a product and then we never hear from you again. By now there is a large divergence (pardon the pun) between what laser projectors and software can do today, and the ILDA file format.įurthermore I will remind you that Pangolin is not only a software company. And yet since that time, our improved ideas were not adopted, and in the mean time software and even laser projectors are getting better and better. Myself and a few other people worked tirelessly, and we turned over a new format to ILDA when I left the chairmanship around the year 2001. While I was chairman of the ILDA Technical Committee, I tried to work within ILDA to get the format updated. The ILDA format is "lossy" in that is loses information about color, scan rate, timing, any kind of zones, projection areas or individual makeup of the file (for example information about "faces" of 3D elements), etc. That format you are talking about was conceived more than 25 years ago, before any of the more advanced laser techniques were developed that we use today. But the answer to your question does not lie within the ILDA file format, and in fact, if you think about it for a while, you will realize that your question itself has nothing to do with the ILDA file format. We thank you for the question and we think you have a very good overall question.
