What is the difference between .ply and .png?
- Extension
- .ply
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- 3D
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Stanford University
- PNG Development Group
- 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 PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .ply on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia