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Import .ply file gives different results for Mma 10.1 and 10.2.

When importing a .ply file with vertices and polygons that together create a shape/mesh, the order of the points in the resulting list of vertices is totally different in 10.2 w.r.t 10.1, both on Mac OS X 10.10.5. The order of the the vertices in 10.1 is exactly the same as in the source .ply file. See attached figure: left is source file in text editor, middle is list in 10.1, right is list in 10.2. In all the same point is selected.

Is this intended? Is this a bug? Is there something I can do about that, by using a legacy option in the Import function?

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POSTED BY: Hans van Assen
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Posted 10 years ago

Here's a workaround to import data from binary (big & little endian) and ascii ply files. Works on my samples. If you have suggested improvements, please let me know.

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POSTED BY: Matt Reed
Posted 10 years ago

I just lost most of a day to this very problem and am stuck with trying to find a fix. Using Import[], Mathematica 10.2 reorders the vertices of both binary and ascii input files PLY format, whereas Mathematica 9 preserved the order in the file. This is enormously problematic for me, because like many people I work on these geometry files in other software as well. Maintaining the vertex order is critical to this workflow. I presume that the reordering was added to obtain some optimization in rendering or retrieval of the MeshRegion object, because a ply file saved from Mathematica does not appear to be reordered again on import. Can we get an element added to retrieve the original vertex order, or an option to prevent the reordering on import?

POSTED BY: Matt Reed
POSTED BY: Hans van Assen

Does it result in the same MeshRegion object.

How are you importing the list of vertices? Are you using Import[..., "VertexData"] or looking at the resulting MeshRegion in someway?

Either of them don't seem to have any guarantee that they give the vertices in the order listed in the source file. So it's not a bug by itself.

POSTED BY: Sean Clarke
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