From 7d31845f7654d48142eb86e764d16793dad90cf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: isaaccorley <22203655+isaaccorley@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:32:46 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] update test data readme for las files

---
 tests/data/README.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/data/README.md b/tests/data/README.md
index 35cca49b9d5..3884cbf382a 100644
--- a/tests/data/README.md
+++ b/tests/data/README.md
@@ -91,3 +91,28 @@ masks = np.random.randint(low=0, high=num_classes, size=(1, 1)).astype(np.uint8)
 f.create_dataset("images", data=images)
 f.create_dataset("masks", data=masks)
 f.close()
+```
+
+### LAS Point Cloud files
+
+```python
+import laspy
+
+num_points = 4
+
+las = laspy.read("0.las")
+las.points = las.points[:num_points]
+
+points = np.random.randint(low=0, high=100, size=(num_points,), dtype=las.x.dtype)
+las.x = points
+las.y = points
+las.z = points
+
+if hasattr(las, "red"):
+    colors = np.random.randint(low=0, high=10, size=(num_points,), dtype=las.red.dtype)
+    las.red = colors
+    las.green = colors
+    las.blue = colors
+
+las.write("0.las")
+```