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

[Nenad Vujicic]

Bill,

Thank you very much for your help! Your patch works great! Now, I can load
my PLY point cloud files and visualize them using Glyph filter.

Nenad.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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