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[MANTA] materials in ply files


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  • From: Thiago Ize <thiago@cs.utah.edu>
  • To: manta@sci.utah.edu
  • Subject: [MANTA] materials in ply files
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:06:51 -0600
So ply files are allowed to specify arbitrary elements and properties (it's all strings) and I've seen toy examples of ply files with edges that have a color specified. The only way I can allow arbitrary elements though is if I make the user of the plyReader do their own work and I figure we are all too lazy to want to have to go through a lot of work when loading a ply file. So, I'm making it so that the ply reader will by default only work with certain element and property names.

My question: What kinds of material/color things should I support? As far as I'm aware (and I only have experience with a small amount of ply files), I've never seen a real ply file with anything but geometry properties, so I'm thinking I can just leave out materials. Let me know if you think I should include certain material properties.

Thiago



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