<div dir="ltr">I think that as long as you're providing some reasonable information, this would be fine. The PCD reader, which is also a text format without much that you can glean quickly, does the same thing.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 2:07 AM Daniel Brookes <<a href="mailto:dbrookes@micromine.com">dbrookes@micromine.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello point cloud people!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One part of the PDAL C++ API we utilise in our application is the QuickInfo inspection to relatively quickly determine info about a point cloud file. We use this for some UI components. This works great for LAS and E57 but we recently had
a request for this to work for PLY files as well. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m happy to submit a PR to extend PlyReader for this but a problem I realised is that the PLY header does not specify bounds (or SRS) which would leave the QuickInfo incomplete (without reading the entire file to determine bounds, which
defeats the purpose). <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What’s the feeling around that? Is it reasonable for the QuickInfo bounds to be empty and we fill out the parts we can - which for PLY would be the point count and dimensions.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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