[vtk-developers] PLY reader issues

[Mathieu Coursolle]

Hi,

I added a test to the issue 5775. However, the bunny from stanford is
2.9 MBytes.
Is this too much?

Thanks.

Mathieu

>Hi VTK developpers,
>
>I am currently using vtkPLYReader class to load some polygonal objects.
>After some tests, I noticed that I could not open all PLY files I had.
>I am running Mac OS 10.5 on an intel Mac.
>
>I first tried the stanford Bunny <http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/data/
>3Dscanrep/>
>without any success. The file defines its data as float32, int32 and
>uint8, types
>that are not known with vtkPLY.
>
>I provide a patch with those types added (see mantis 5775), as well as
>some line ending
>issues for which that bug was previously open.
>
>I could test it with a few files from the stanford database with
>success. However, I could
>not test it on other platform. 
>
>Is there a vtkPLYReader test right now? If now, would it be hard to add
>the stanford bunny (and/or other ply files), as 
>a test? Is there a procedure to add such a test?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mathieu
>
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>Mathieu Coursolle                   mcoursolle at rogue-research.com
>Rogue Research                      www.rogue-research.com 
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