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OpticStudio's tool to export point clouds creates a lens.pcd file. The 11 first lines are information about the file structure, then followed by the points.





# .PCD v0.7 - Point Cloud Data file format

VERSION 0.7

FIELDS x y z

SIZE 4 4 4

TYPE F F F

COUNT 1 1 1

WIDTH 100

HEIGHT 100

VIEWPOINT 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

POINTS 10000

DATA ascii


Could someone fill in the blanks?



VERSION    ->    Tool Version Number



FIELDS       ->    Order of Coordinates



SIZE           ->    ?



TYPE          ->    Number Type? In this case Float?



COUNT       ->    ?



WIDTH        ->    Number of Data Points along the Width?



HEIGHT       ->    Number of Data Points along the Height?



VIEWPOINT ->    ?



POINTS       ->    Number of Data Points



DATA           ->    Data Encoding

Hey Victor,



Full file format specs are at https://pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/pcd_file_format.html


Perfect!



Thank you very much!


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