Function readPly

readPly(source: ReadSource, pool: ChunkDataPool): Promise<ChunkSource>
Open a gaussian-splat PLY as a ChunkSource. The single public PLY reader.

Standard uncompressed binary PLY is read lazily: only the header is parsed at open time, and each read seeks the requested chunk's byte range, pulls just those records, and de-interleaves the requested layers into the caller's buffers. Standard gaussian properties map to the position/geometric/color layers; non-standard properties (e.g. normals) become other-layer extras.

Compressed PLY (the packed chunk+vertex format) is read lazily too: each chunk is range-read and dequantized on demand (see readCompressedChunked). Either way the data is labelled Transform.PLY.

The source must be seekable (range reads).
Parameters
- source: ReadSource
  A seekable read source over the PLY file.
- pool: ChunkDataPool
  The chunk-data pool whose chunkSize defines the chunking granularity.
Returns Promise<ChunkSource>
A lazy ChunkSource over the file.
- Defined in readers/read-ply.ts:573