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How to convert BVH to PLY (Stanford .ply)?

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BVH

Biovision BVH are legacy files from the 1990s and early 2000s that define motion capture data of animated skeletons in terms of joints, hierarchy and angle constraints.

Okino software can import and export such BVH files relative to other animation systems such as 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema-4D, FBX, COLLADA, etc.

PLY

PLY can generally be considered a simple, 1990s-era, university research oriented polygonal (mesh) 3D file format designed to store data from 3D scanners. It was developed by Greg Turk and others in the Stanford graphics. Its design was inspired by the Wavefront .obj format.

PLY was meant to be a simple, easily parsable file format and hence only conveys basic geometry information for a single object definition with polygon vertices, vertex colors vertex normals and UV texture coordinates. No materials nor hierarchy, lights or cameras are supported.

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