Thanks, Doug; this helps me to formulate my second question better, which is:

2) Assuming that no change in intensity is necessary, would the files lh.white, lh.area, and lh.curv produced by the mri_make_surfaces command (in the -white subsection of the -autorecon2 section) be the same as the files produced by the command

  mri_smooth lh.orig lh.white?

(Note that I dropped the flag -nw, so this will produce lh.area and lh.curv files.)

Thanks again,
David

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

lh.orig.nofix is the original tesselation without anything done to it.
To get to lh.white, the defects are automatically corrected to create
lh.orig. lh.orig is then refined with smoothness and intensity
constraints to produce lh.white
doug

On 09/04/2013 07:07 PM, David Romano wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been trying to go through the various steps described on the page:
>
> http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReconAllDevTable
>
> and I'm trying to understand part of the -autorecon2 section, and in
> particular,
>
> 1) how the lh.orig.nofix file that is produced by the end of the
> -tessellate subsection is different from the the lh.white file that is
> produced by the -white subsection, and
>
> 2) whether the area and curvature files produced by the command
>
>
>
>
>

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