It can be, see the Stanford Scanning Repository, who originally developed the format:lastools wrote:Is PLY often used for storing point data?
http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/
PCL (http://docs.pointclouds.org/trunk/class ... eader.html) and a few other programs also support it.
The format doesn't add much over a plain text file so I don't use it that often.
As an intermediate format for moving between programs .ply and .obj seem to be the most widely supported. Many programs claim to have some level of VRML support but I've generally found it pretty unreliable in most cases.lastools wrote:What triangle mesh formats do you commonly use?
Best,