vcgPlyRead {Rvcg}

Import ascii or binary PLY files.

Description

Reads Polygon File Format (PLY) files and stores the results in an object of class "mesh3d" - momentarily only triangular meshes are supported.

Usage

vcgPlyRead(file, updateNormals = TRUE, clean = TRUE)

Arguments

file

character: file to be read.

updateNormals

logical: if TRUE and the imported file contais faces, vertex normals will be (re)calculated.

clean

logical: if TRUE, duplicated and unreference vertices will be removed.

Value

Object of class "mesh3d"

with:

vb

3 x n matrix containing n vertices as homolougous coordinates

normals

3 x n matrix containing vertex normals

it

3 x m integer matrix containing vertex indices forming triangular faces

material$color

Per vertex colors if specified in the imported file

Note

from version 0.8 on this is only a wrapper for vcgImport (to avoid API breaking).

Author(s)

Stefan Schlager

See Also

vcgSmooth,