PCL_PLY2OBJ(1)

💖 PCL_PLY2OBJ(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about pcl_ply2obj — yes that's the PCL_PLY2OBJ(1) manual page, and it's lowkey iconic. it lives in the User Commands section, it's giving tiny-but-mighty utility energy, and it does exactly one job and does it slayfully. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pcl_ply2obj — that's it, that's the name, that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ply2obj [OPTION] [[INFILE] OUTFILE]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the whole thing? it converts a PLY file into an OBJ file. that's the mission. no cap. 🔥

• -h, --help — shows you this help text and then dips out (exits). the classic "explain yourself then leave" move. 💖
• -v, --version — spits out the version info and exits. your girl is telling you who she is. ✨
• -f, --flag=FLAG — sets a flag, bestie.

and what can FLAG actually be, you ask? literally just one thing:

• triangulate

🫶 real talk: FLAG may be one of the following: triangulate. that's the whole list. don't come at me with other options, they're not in the building.

also super important: if you give it no INFILE/OUTFILE at all, or if INFILE/OUTFILE is -, then it reads from standard input / writes to standard output. so it's fully pipeable, fully chill, fully main character energy. 🌈

🎀 Supported PLY elements & properties 🎀

here's the tea on what this thing actually understands. the following PLY elements and properties are supported:

element vertex

property float32 x property float32 y property float32 z

element face

property list uint8 int32 vertex_indices.

like… that's the list. it's short, it's sweet, it's honest. anything else? not supported. periodt. 💜

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, bestie — report bugs to www.pointclouds.org/issues. they wanna hear from you, fr fr. 🐛

👑 AUTHOR 👑

pcl_ply2obj is part of the Point Cloud Library (PCL) — www.pointclouds.org. 💖

and for context: the Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing. it's a whole big deal. ⭐

this manual page was written by Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net>, with the help of the help2man tool and some handmade arrangement for the Debian project — and it may be used by others too. 🫶

🌸 and that's the page, gorgeous. it's pcl_ply2obj version 1.7.1, dated May 2014, sitting pretty in the PCL_PLY2OBJ(1) section of your manual. go convert some point clouds, you absolute icon. 💅✨💖