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Read & Write PLY Files

12 Jul 2004 (Updated 19 Jul 2004)

Read and write the 3D data PLY file format.

File Information
Description	PLY is a file format developed by Stanford University for exchanging data like meshes and 3D scans. This archive contains two MATLAB M-file functions to read and write 3D data PLY files. An HTML article on the PLY format and links to PLY resources is also included.
MATLAB release	MATLAB 5.3 (R11)
Zip File Content
HTML Files	ply.htm
Other Files	plyread.m, plywrite.m, plywritetri.m, README.TXT, cow.ply

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Everyone's Tags	3d(2), data, data export, data import, ply(2), ply files(2), stanford(2), utilities
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Comments and Ratings (10)
30 Jul 2004	Timothy McKillinger	Thank you. My quest is over.
30 Aug 2004	Luigi Rosa	Excellent work
04 Nov 2004	Why Shake	My quest is over too!! :)
15 Nov 2004	them nguyen van
30 Jan 2006	Aron Ahmadia	Just what I need for handling PLY files
24 Sep 2006	Mohamed Amine JALLOULI	The provided M files are simple in use. They treat both 'ascii' and 'tri' PLY file. Needed improvments: coloring the PLY file.
23 Nov 2006	Marta Xibernet	Thanks! It works fine.
13 Feb 2007	Babak Taati	very good.
16 Dec 2008	Fabian Schneiter	nice work, but the structured data makes the code very slow for large datasets. furthermore I think the datatype of faces indices should not be 'short' but 'int', or some programs like MeshLab won't be able to read it.
02 Nov 2009	Bhavik	I am a matlab begineer please suggest how to execute this file...or just copy paste in works folder will do...Thanks in advance

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Updates

19 Jul 2004

Changes in update:

- Bug fix in plyread.m

- Added plywritetri.m to easily write PLY files from triangular mesh data

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
data import	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
data export	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
ply	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
3d	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
ply files	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
stanford	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
data	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
utilities	Pascal Getreuer	22 Oct 2008 07:27:14
3d	Bhavik	02 Nov 2009 13:33:50
ply	Bhavik	02 Nov 2009 13:33:57
ply files	Bhavik	02 Nov 2009 13:33:58
stanford	Bhavik	02 Nov 2009 13:33:59

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