plato_ply

plato_ply, a C code which writes any one of the five Platonic solids to a PLY file, by Greg Turk.

Usage:

plato_ply -switch > file.ply

• switch chooses the solid:
  • c: the cube
  • d: the dodecahedron
  • i: the icosahedron
  • o: the octahedron
  • t: the tetrahedron
• file.ply is the name of the output PLY file.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

plato_ply is available in a C version.

Related Data and Programs:

plato_ply_test

ply, a data directory which contains examples of PLY files, a format for objects defined as a collection of polygons, 3D graphics;

ply_io, a C library which reads or writes a 3D graphics file in PLY format, by Greg Turk;

ply_to_iv, a C program which converts a 3D graphics file from PLY format to Inventor format, by Greg Turk.

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

ply_to_tri_surface, a MATLAB program which reads a PLY file and extracts the surface mesh data as a TRI_SURFACE dataset.

Author:

Greg Turk

Source Code:

• plato_ply.c, the source code;
• plato_ply.sh, compiles the source code;