[vtkusers] PLY Reader: vtkPLYReader.cxx needs Point Cloud Loading implementation

[Bill Lorensen]

I found the problem. I'll be submitting an MR soon.

Can you point me to some fairly large point cloud files?

Bill

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll take a look.
>
> On Jan 25, 2017 10:22 AM, "Nenad Vujicic" <nenadus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I found several PLY files which crashed my ParaView based application. I
>> inspected vtkPLYReader.cxx and found that it doesn't support loading of PLY
>> files with points.
>>
>> Example of such PLY file:
>> https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse558/01sp/software/scanalyze/points.html
>> Example of software which successfully opens such PLY file: CloudCompare -
>> http://www.danielgm.net/cc/
>>
>> Do you maybe have in plans adding support, to vtkPLYReader.cxx, for such
>> PLY files?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Nenad.
>>
>>
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