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What is the structure of the .PTS file?

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:19:57 GMT

When I export to .PTS my file looks like this?

8484059
-55.177418 19.965168 -2.305747 56 109 109 107 -0.045291 0.015088 0.99886
-55.325418 20.636168 -2.313747 56 129 129 129 -0.015102 0.015102 0.999772
-55.625418 19.996168 -2.316747 52 122 122 120 -0.015102 0.015102 0.999772
-54.918418 20.982168 -2.303747 58 123 127 126 -0.015102 0.015102 0.999772

What is the meaning of each number? It seems like the first three are x,y,z, how about the rest?

Re: What is the structure of the .PTS file?

yan.fu — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:58:53 GMT

The first line is number of points in this file.

For each point, the format is

x y z r g b intensity normal_x normal_y normal z

or it could be

x y z intenisty r g b normal_x normal_y normal z

When you import .pts file into ReCap, you can use the text format setting in the import setting to specify your input .pts file format.

Re: What is the structure of the .PTS file?

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:03:51 GMT

Thanks for the reply. How are the normal_x normal_y normal z related to x y z?

Re: What is the structure of the .PTS file?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:24:20 GMT

Thanks!

Re: What is the structure of the .PTS file?

yan.fu — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:00:29 GMT

(normal_x, normal_y, normal_z) is the normal vector of that point