ply format ascii 1.0 { ascii/binary, format version number } comment made by Greg Turk { comments keyword specified, like all lines } comment this file is a cube element vertex 8 { define "vertex" element, 8 of them in file } property float x { vertex contains float "x" coordinate } property float y { y coordinate is also a vertex property } property float z { z coordinate, too } element face 6 { there are 6 "face" elements in the file } property list uchar int vertex_index { "vertex_indices" is a list of ints } end_header { delimits the end of the header } 0 0 0 { start of vertex list } 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 4 0 1 2 3 { start of face list } 4 7 6 5 4 4 0 4 5 1 4 1 5 6 2 4 2 6 7 3 4 3 7 4 0