What is the difference between .ply and .bmp?
- Extension
- .ply
- .bmp
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- 3D
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Stanford University
- Microsoft
- Description
- It is a 3D model file format developed by Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory. PLY is mainly used to describe objects in a collection of polygons.
- A BMP file is an uncompressed raster image comprised of a rectangular grid of pixels. It contains a file header (bitmap identifier, file size, width, height, color options, and bitmap data starting point) and bitmap pixels, each with a different color.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/bmp
- Sample
- sample.bmp
- Wikipedia
- .ply on Wikipedia
- .bmp on Wikipedia