Crate ply_rs

Library for reading/writing ascii and binary PLY files.

This library has two goals:

• Get you started easily.
• Give you enough flexibility to boost performance.

Simplicity is provided by giving you high level operations and ready to use data structures:

• Read an entire PLY file with read_ply(reader), see the Parser module.
• Write an entire PLY with ẁrite_ply(target, ply), se the Writer module.
• Don’t care about data types: DefaultElement is nothing more than a linked HashMap where you access elements with String keys.

Performance can be achieved by using the finer granular methods and your own structs:

• Writer and Parser provide you with methods down to the line/element level for nice things like streaming architectures.
• Ply, Writer, and Parser use generics for the element-type. If HashMaps are too slow for you, define your own structs and implement the PropertyAccess trait. Data will then be written directly to your target format.

Modules

• parser
  Reads ascii or binary data into a Ply.
• ply
  Definitions used to model PLY files.
• writer
  Writes ascii or binary data from a Ply to a Write trait.