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

[Bill Lorensen]

here is an MR that allows point clouds to be read:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/2429


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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