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Point Cloud — Fibonacci Sphere (PLY)
A 1,200-point coloured point cloud arranged on a sphere via a Fibonacci lattice — a vertex-only PLY (no faces), the format scanners and LiDAR tools produce. Paired with a GLB (POINTS) twin, for testing point-cloud loaders.
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Interactive preview rendered from the equivalent glTF (sphere-points.glb); drag to orbit. Download the file above for the PLY original.
Specifications
- Format
- PLY (ASCII, points only)
- Points
- 1200
- Coloured
- true
- Shape
- unit sphere (Fibonacci lattice)
Code examples
import trimesh # pip install trimesh
mesh = trimesh.load("sphere-points.ply")
print(mesh.bounds, mesh.faces.shape)Related files
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- glbGLB — glTF 2.0 Binary CubeA 10 mm cube as binary glTF (GLB) — the dominant modern format for 3D on the web and in AR, with per-face normals packed into one self-contained file. Powers the interactive 3D preview on this site; for testing glTF loaders and conversion.
- gltfglTF — JSON Cube (embedded)A 10 mm cube as text glTF 2.0 — the JSON scene with its binary buffer embedded as a data URI, the human-readable sibling of the GLB. For testing glTF parsers and GLB↔glTF conversion.
Generated by generation/models_realistic.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.