Format

Polygon File Format

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Summary

Name: Polygon File Format
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/831
Format type: Model
Description: Also known as the Stanford Triangle Format, PLY is a format for storing graphical objects that are described as a collection of polygons. PLY can be represented in ASCII or binary.
File extensions: ply
Submitted by: Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

PLY

Description: BOF: ply [line break] format (ascii|binary_little_endian|binary_big_endian) 1.0
Provenance: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: 0
Byte Sequence: 706C79(0A|0D|0D0A)666F726D617420(6173636969|62696E6172795F6C6974746C655F656E6469616E|62696E6172795F6269675F656E6469616E)20312E30
Endianness: None

Changelog

V91

Release date

25 July 2017
- Updated
  
  Polygon File Format: Improved signature submitted by Henk Vanstappen, Datable.
V84

Release date

21 January 2016
- Added format
  
  Polygon File Format: Full entry added.
- Added signature
  
  Polygon File Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.