PLY_TO_IV
PLY => IV Graphics File Conversion

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

Related Data and Programs:

OBJ_2_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_IO is a C library which is needed by PLY_TO_IV.

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

Usage:

ply_to_iv [flags] < file.ply > file.iv

reads graphics data from file.ply and writes it to file.iv

Reference:

1. the PLY file directory.
2. the IV file directory.

Source Code:

• ply_to_iv.c, the source code;
• ply_to_iv.csh, commands to compile, link and load the source code;

Examples and Tests:

CUBE is a simple definition of a cube. We issue the command

ply_to_iv < cube.ply > cube.iv

• cube.ply, the PLY file read by the command;
• cube.iv, the Inventor file created by the command.

List of Routines:

• MAIN is the main program for PLY_TO_IV.
• USAGE prints the usage information when the program is called incorrectly.
• READ_PLY_FILE reads a PLY file from standard input.
• WRITE_INVENTOR_FILE writes an Inventor file to standard output.

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