PLY_IO
PLY (Polygon) Files
Read and Write Utilities

PLY_IO is a C library which reads and writes files in the PLY format, for objects described as collections of polygons.

Related Data and Programs:

OBJ_TO_PLY is a C program which converts an OBJ file to a PLY file.

PLATO_PLY is a C program which writes out any of the five Platonic solids as a PLY file.

PLY is a data directory which contains some information about the PLY format.

PLY_TO_IV is a C program which converts a PLY file to an Inventor file.

PLY_IO is a MATLAB library which can read or write a PLY file.

PLY_TO_OBJ is a C program which reads a PLY 3D graphics file and writes an equivalent OBJ graphics file.

PLY_TO_TRI_MESH is a MATLAB program which can read a PLY file, extract the polygonal surface information, and return it as a TRI_MESH dataset.

TRI_MESH_TO_PLY is a MATLAB program which converts a TRI_MESH data structure into a PLY data structure.

Author:

Greg Turk

Reference:

1. Greg Turk,
   The PLY Polygon File Format,
   ply_format.txt.

Source Code:

• ply_io.c, the source code;
• ply_io.h, the include file;
• ply_io.csh, commands to compile the source code;

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