Hi,
sorry to bring an off topic, but I could not find a solution myself.
I was asked to prepare a short fly-by animation of a ?h.pial for a TV who interviewed my boss last week. Would you have any recommendation on how to do that? The ?h.pial is a mesh, which is ideal, because the surface of the pial would be nice and smooth. I tried to export aparc+aseg to Analyze and read it into OsiriX, where I can easily produce the animation, but the surface was not smooth, as one would expect. So that is not the solution.
Has anyone experience with this kind of task?
Thanks,
Martin
what kind of animation? You should be able to do this with a tcl script in tksurfer, saving consecutive tiffs from slightly different viewpoints. See the wiki page on the tksufer tcl commands.
cheers, Bruce
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Martin Kavec wrote:
Hi,
sorry to bring an off topic, but I could not find a solution myself.
I was asked to prepare a short fly-by animation of a ?h.pial for a TV who interviewed my boss last week. Would you have any recommendation on how to do that? The ?h.pial is a mesh, which is ideal, because the surface of the pial would be nice and smooth. I tried to export aparc+aseg to Analyze and read it into OsiriX, where I can easily produce the animation, but the surface was not smooth, as one would expect. So that is not the solution.
Has anyone experience with this kind of task?
Thanks,
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Hi Bruce,
and thanks for the idea.
On Monday 05 November 2007 14:45:10 Bruce Fischl wrote:
what kind of animation? You should be able to do this with a tcl script in tksurfer, saving consecutive tiffs from slightly different viewpoints.
I had in mind some complex rotation, zoom-in zoom-out, and fly-through animation. So it would be a bit laborious to find all the trajectories. I thought to take the mesh(es) out to something like 3D Studio Max or Maya and do the animation there, where one can just specify keyframes and the software computes the rest of the frames in between. I'll have a look at that option if I find a spare time later. For now I've made just a two nice snapshots of the pial surfaces. The boss doesn't want me to spend too much time on this.
cheers,
Martin
I see. We can export to STL format if that helps (mris_convert with an output file extension .stl). The same for VTK, although no idea if this still works On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Martin Kavec wrote:
Hi Bruce,
and thanks for the idea.
On Monday 05 November 2007 14:45:10 Bruce Fischl wrote:
what kind of animation? You should be able to do this with a tcl script in tksurfer, saving consecutive tiffs from slightly different viewpoints.
I had in mind some complex rotation, zoom-in zoom-out, and fly-through animation. So it would be a bit laborious to find all the trajectories. I thought to take the mesh(es) out to something like 3D Studio Max or Maya and do the animation there, where one can just specify keyframes and the software computes the rest of the frames in between. I'll have a look at that option if I find a spare time later. For now I've made just a two nice snapshots of the pial surfaces. The boss doesn't want me to spend too much time on this.
cheers,
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