machinevisiontoolbox.PointCloud.PointCloud.Read

classmethod PointCloud.Read(filename, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Create point cloud from file

Parameters:

filename (str) – name of file

Returns:

new point cloud

Return type:

PointCloud instance

Read point cloud data from a file using read_point_cloud. Supported filetypes include PLY.

If the path is not absolute it is first searched for relative to the current directory, and if not found, it is searched for in the data folder of the `mvtb_data package <https://github.com/petercorke/machinevision-toolbox-python/tree/master/mvtb-data>`_.