🧀 BigCheese.ai

Social

Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C

🧀

Article presents a robust Wavefront OBJ parser in C, detailing challenges and techniques in parsing 3D model data, showcasing a technique to handle undefined behavior, and demonstrating the parsing process with sample code.

  • Wavefront OBJ is a 3D geometry format.
  • Robust parsing avoids undefined behavior.
  • The parser has no hard-coded limits.
  • Article includes full source code.
  • Supports vertices, normals, and faces.