Dear Morphometricians, I am working on a 3D scanner system called OptoSCAN developed by Breuckmann, Meersburg Germany. Firstly, I would appreciate any contact with people who have used/are currently using one of these systems.
The software that comes with the system is called OptoCAT, and once merging all the single images into a 3D dataset, the output file is a .ply file (polygon file format). I understand that .ply files come in binary - little endian 1.0 format, and ASCII 1.0 format. The OptoCAT application exports in binary format, and these .ply files crash my .ply viewer (SunXi viewer) and the Landmark application (developed by the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)) that apparently reads .ply files. Has anyone got experience working in 3D, specifically with .ply files. Or has anyone used this OptoCAT software? Suggestions please! Thanks, -- Regards, Emma Sherratt Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
