Bangalore: Indian Institute of Science (IISc) professors have teamed up with a Stanford University Don to start a technology firm with their solution that compresses bulky three-dimensional model files and enables it to be transmitted over the Internet.

The start-up "3D Solid Compression Pvt Ltd", in which the American University and IISc have minority stake was formed early this year by IISc Department of Mechanical Engineering (DME) Professor B Gurumoorthy, visiting professor Krishnan Ramaswami and their guru Stanford University DME Chairman Fritz Prinz.

Ramaswami initially began working on the compression technology as an offshoot of another project between IISc and Stanford where the heavy 3 D models that were created could not be transmitted over the internet.

"We can compress files phenomenally than its original size and retain the complexity of a 3D model when it is transmitted. The solution is similar to that of a zip file, but more complex," Gurumoorthy said.

3D Solid Compression is among the startups incubated at IISc after PicoPeta Simputers and Strand Genomics while global firms like Hewlett Packard, Google and Yahoo! have emerged out of Stanford which is based in Silicon Valley.

Ramaswami said their firm would be a technology holding company with the productisation and marketing left to embedded solutions firm DACS Software.