Hi Claire, sorry for the delay- I'm travelling.

this looks like an issue with the normals. How does it work with addNormals
=F ?

Emma

On Friday, August 21, 2015, Claire Terhune <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Emma-
> I seem to be having a different problem with the read.ply function that
> I'm hoping to get some help with. I've made sure my files are in ASCII
> format and I have removed texture information, but when I try to import
> them into geomorph I am getting the following error: *Error in if
> (sum(normals[1:3, it[j, i]] * normal) < 0) normals[, it[j,  :   missing
> value where TRUE/FALSE needed*
>
> The files I'm working with were generated from CT scans rather than via a
> surface scanner, so I wonder if that has something to do with it? If so,
> does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might fix this?
> Thanks,
> Claire Terhune
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> On Monday, December 15, 2014 at 10:02:39 PM UTC-6, Emma Sherratt wrote:
>>
>> Dear David and Stefan,
>>
>> The issue was that the PLY file of David has textures, which our read.ply
>> function currently does not support. Resaving the file without the texture
>> information made the file readable.
>>
>> FYI Stefan, the original file read fine with your vsgImport function, but
>> only when readcolor=FALSE. When TRUE, it crashed R.
>>
>> Emma
>>
>> On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 05:34:00 UTC+11, Stefan Schlager wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>> You can use either vcgImport from Rvcg or file2mesh from Morpho (which
>>> is basically the same) to import all kinds of meshes (stl, obj, ply) binary
>>> and ascii into an object of class "mesh3d"
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>> On 15/12/14 01:52, David Katz wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> When I try to read a 3D surface file (ply ascii format) into geomorph, I
>>> get the following error:
>>>
>>> "Error in dim(points) <- c(ncolpts, npoints) :
>>>   dims [product 6426920] do not match the length of object [5784228]"
>>>
>>> For what it's worth, length of object is *exactly *90% of dims.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea where this problem is coming from and how to
>>> fix it? Note that the model opens without difficulty as a binary ply in
>>> Geomagic.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> David Katz
>>>
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