From cc3ee235e260891f46ca3e57d7eedc93f85a68ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Rauch <Christian.Rauch@unileoben.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:12:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] support 'float16' a.k.a. "half precision"

---
 plyfile.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/plyfile.py b/plyfile.py
index c2a1e1d..02b8400 100644
--- a/plyfile.py
+++ b/plyfile.py
@@ -1487,6 +1487,7 @@ def _lookup_type(type_str):
     ('int', 'i4'),
     ('uint32', 'u4'),
     ('uint', 'u4'),
+    ('float16', 'f2'),
     ('float32', 'f4'),
     ('float', 'f4'),
     ('float64', 'f8'),

From ec44b37fda1f250927fe16cca28b140417a8f72b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Rauch <Christian.Rauch@unileoben.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:14:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add 'int64' and 'uint64'

---
 plyfile.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plyfile.py b/plyfile.py
index 02b8400..596dd30 100644
--- a/plyfile.py
+++ b/plyfile.py
@@ -1487,6 +1487,8 @@ def _lookup_type(type_str):
     ('int', 'i4'),
     ('uint32', 'u4'),
     ('uint', 'u4'),
+    ('int64', 'i8'),
+    ('uint64', 'u8'),
     ('float16', 'f2'),
     ('float32', 'f4'),
     ('float', 'f4'),