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Rvcg (version 0.12.2)

vcgPlyRead: 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:

  • vb3 x n matrix containing n vertices as homolougous coordinates
  • normals3 x n matrix containing vertex normals
  • it3 x m integer matrix containing vertex indices forming triangular faces
  • material$colorPer vertex colors if specified in the imported file

See Also

vcgSmooth,