PlyToPointcloud

Features

• Converts between .ply and .pointcloud file format
• Supports .ply files with x,y,z,nx,ny,nz,red,green,blue format only (you can use e.g. MeshLab to export to this format)
• Drag and drop .ply files to generate the corresponding .pointcloud files
• Drag and drop .pointcloud files to generate the original .ply file

Pointcloud file format

• A .pointcloud file stores the following binary data
  • Vector3 - position of the bounding cube
  • float - size of the bounding cube
  • uint - length of the vertex array
  • vector - list of vertices
• Each vertex consists of
  • Vector3 - position
  • char[3] - normalized normal
  • uchar[3] - rgb color