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Hello,
Is there any possible way to run the PCV plugin on more than one file at a time? or possibly in batch? Thanks!

Right now it's not possible. And as it's a plugin it will be hard to call it through the command line.

But it's interesting: when you say you want to apply it on several clouds at a time, do you want that they all share the same "sky" (i.e. exactly the same light rays: same position and orientation) or just to apply the PCV algorithm in a batch as your question suggests?

Really I would just want to apply the PCV algorithm in batch. I am making an animation from a long corridor of aerial points and the shading achieved through the PCV plugin gives a contextual "pop" to the look of the points that is much better than simple intensity shading.

Hello,

I am looking to do something very similar, and my apologies for my novice--I have never coded with the command line before. I have about 10,000 *.ply files, and wish to flip the surface by applying transformation

[1 0 0 0
0 1 0 0
0 0 -1 0
0 0 0 1]

and then calculating PCV for each surface individually (sample rays on a sphere, only northern hemisphere (+Z) ), and export the average and standard deviation for each PCV score (preferably, all in one file). Is this something that can be done? If so, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Mike