vcgPlyRead: Import ascii or binary PLY files.

In Rvcg: Manipulations of Triangular Meshes Based on the 'VCGLIB' API

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,

Rvcg documentation built on Feb. 16, 2023, 5:12 p.m.