A streaming PLY parser written in JavaScript.
First, install using npm:
npm install parse-ply
Then you can create a stream using require. For example, here is some code that parses a PLY file from stdin and dumps the result to stdout:
process.stdin.pipe(require("parse-ply")()).on("data", function(ply) {
console.log(ply);
});
The properties within the file are all encoded as appropriate typed arrays.
require("parse-ply")()This creates a streaming PLY parser. To use it, pipe in a stream containing your mesh. When it is done, it will emit a data event that has the parsed PLY file as the main argument.
To learn more about the PLY file format, here are some links:
You can also view PLY files using standard tools, like MeshLab:
(c) 2013 Mikola Lysenko. BSD License