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Hi Shahin
What is your command line? mris_flatten does some random sampling of distances since the whole N^2 distance matrix is too big. You can remove the randomness by either specifying -norand or using a specific seed like -seed 1234.
That said, you second image looks like a failure of the flattening. This usually means the distances aren’t sampled out far enough/densely enough. The defaults are super old (7 neighbor ring, 12 distances/ring). You could try something
like -distances 20 20 and see if that fixes things (and -norand if you want)
Cheers
Bruce
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Subject: [Freesurfer] mris_flatten Version 6 vs. 7
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Hi Surfers,
This is the second time that I have brought this issue up. When applied to the same 3D patch, the command mris_flatten generates two completely different outcomes
when runs under stable 6 vs. 711 (see the attached files). I checked the documentation if there is any flags by which I can control the process. But I couldn't find anything relevant. Any idea what has happened?
Regards
Shahin Nasr, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School