What is the difference between .ply and .gif?
- Extension
- .ply
- .gif
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- 3D
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Stanford University
- CompuServe
- 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 GIF file is an image file often used for web graphics. It may contain up to 256 indexed colors with a color palette that may be a predefined set of colors or may be adapted to the colors in the image. GIF files are saved in a lossless format, meaning the clarity of the image is not compromised with GIF compression.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/gif
- Sample
- sample.gif
- Wikipedia
- .ply on Wikipedia
- .gif on Wikipedia