Add support for ply about potreeconverter HOT 9 CLOSED

Added a rudimentary ply reader: 2bc623c

Supports ply files in little endian format, and one "element vertex" definition at the beginning with following properties:

property float x
property float y
property float z
property uchar (r|red|diffuse_red)
property uchar (g|green|diffuse_green)
property uchar (b|blue|diffuse_blue)
[other properties will be ignored]

todo:

• add support for ascii format
• add support for ply files with multiple element definitions. Also, "element face" must not be ignored, faces must explicitely be skipped.

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Hi I've been playing around with this, in conjunction with point clouds created with the pcl tools. i.e. Create a pcd, then use the pcl_pcd2ply tool to convert to ply, then using this to convert that ply file for use with potree. I had a colleague setup a webgl server for viewing these files, but my converted binary type comes all black on a black screen.

I also have this problem where when I try to output LAS I get a segmentation fault. (I build the libLAS from git source mastered at https://github.com/libLAS/libLAS.git)

Any pointers for working with converted pcd files? (btw: The color data is stored in the pcd as an 888rgb type, that is to say each color only ranges from 0-255)

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I have the output genrate from PMVS2. The options-0000.ply is not getting converted using windows binaries. It is giving following out.

source[0]: output.nvm.cmvs\00\models\options-0000.ply
outdir: .\potree
spacing: 0.5
levels: 4
format: xyzrgb
range: 255
output-format: BINARY

AABB:
min: [3.40282e+038, 3.40282e+038, 3.40282e+038]
max: [-3.40282e+038, -3.40282e+038, -3.40282e+038]
size: [3.40282e+038, 3.40282e+038, 3.40282e+038]

0 points written
duration: 0.002s
closing writer
duration: 0.048s

Though I am able to get the center-0000.ply converted.

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@zekemas Just recently noticed the las output does not work. Will try to fix this tomorrow. And sorry for the late reply, somehow I did not get/see a notification.
The point cloud is black because the converter expects las files to have colors between 0 and 2^16. I'll add an option so that you can specify the range the color is in. In the meantime, you can use lastools to transform your 1byte colors to 2byte colors with something like:

las2las -i file.las -scale_rgb_up

@ashutoshkumarjha The converter already failed at calculating the bounding box. Can you give me a small sample of your ply file?

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@m-schuetz
Please find the 2 sample files in ASCII here.

Sample 1. It is having three more column corresponding to the normal vector(nx,ny,nz).

ply
format ascii 1.0
element vertex 640893
property float x
property float y
property float z
property float nx
property float ny
property float nz
property uchar diffuse_red
property uchar diffuse_green
property uchar diffuse_blue
end_header
-0.135468 -2.15953 3.04081 -0.00986222 0.412305 -0.910992 217 234 253
-0.132577 -2.15953 3.04078 -0.00993394 0.412305 -0.910992 216 233 252
-0.130244 -2.15953 3.04074 -0.0124776 -0.277694 -0.960588 216 233 252
-0.125541 -2.15909 3.04026 -0.0125476 -0.254037 -0.967113 216 233 252
-0.147413 -2.15006 3.033 -0.00676667 0.313743 -0.949484 217 233 252
-0.142532 -2.14964 3.03254 0.00763145 0.939778 -0.3417 216 234 252
-0.123058 -2.15489 3.03913 -0.0140841 0.352687 -0.935635 217 234 252
-0.120103 -2.15489 3.03909 -0.0140896 0.352687 -0.935635 217 235 252
-0.117863 -2.15501 3.03921 -0.0143385 0.146134 -0.989161 217 234 252
-0.115863 -2.15001 3.03366 -0.00764967 0.242114 -0.970218 218 235 252
-0.20394 -2.14965 3.03703 -0.00582301 0.519853 -0.854236 215 233 252
-0.187552 -2.1486 3.03405 0.0466513 0.636871 -0.769558 217 234 253
-0.180405 -2.15149 3.03585 -0.00677877 0.312079 -0.950032 214 232 251
-0.174411 -2.15149 3.03581 -0.00678813 0.312079 -0.950032 214 232 251
-0.168462 -2.15138 3.03564 -0.00641668 0.340512 -0.940218 216 233 251
...........
..........

Sample2. If the input.ply file header is is having the additional lines such as commment(line 3) and property (line 13) just as below it fails.

ply
format binary_little_endian 1.0
comment VCGLIB generated
element vertex 639102
property float x
property float y
property float z
property uchar red
property uchar green
property uchar blue
property uchar alpha
element face 0
property list uchar int vertex_indices
end_header

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@zekemas
fixed las/laz output: 5996860

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@ashutoshkumarjha I tried to convert the 2 examples with the latest develop branch and both worked, when I set the element vertex option to the correct number of points. Maybe the problem is with binary ply files, not ascii files? Can you send me the file that did not work to [email protected] ?

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@m-schuetz you are right the problem is with the binary file. I have sent you the sample file. Also will be it be possible to reorient the ply file coordinate system by passing the parameter. such as xyz to yxz .

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Flipping the y and z coordinates is done in the potree page, like this:

pointcloud.applyMatrix(new THREE.Matrix4().set(
    1,0,0,0,
    0,0,1,0,
    0,1,0,0,
    0,0,0,1
));

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