PLY point clouds
File format
PLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format. It was principally designed to store three-dimensional data from 3D scanners. The data storage format supports a relatively simple description of a single object as a list of nominally flat polygons. A variety of properties can be stored, including color and transparency, surface normals, texture coordinates and data confidence values. The format permits one to have different properties for the front and back of a polygon.
Related work
- PLYReader.net May 2024
PLYReader.net is a small .NET console program in C# that reads PLY point-cloud files stored as binary little-endian.
- PLY in Unity May 2024
PLY in Unity is a Unity project for loading point clouds in the PLY format, the format many 3D scanners export, into a scene.
In the knowledge graph
PLY point clouds and the 2 things it is linked to. Open any dot for its page, or explore it in the full graph.
As data
Everything on this page is read from triples in the knowledge graph. These are the 4 it states about PLY point clouds, and 1 more its ontology implies; the console runs SPARQL over the whole graph, here in your browser.
@prefix id: <https://ask.chaipat.cc/id/> . @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix cj: <https://ask.chaipat.cc/ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . @prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> . id:PLYFormat a cj:FileFormat ; rdfs:label "PLY point clouds" ; skos:altLabel "PLY" ; schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLY_(file_format)> .