It sounds like you have two kinds of VTK data: The surfaces, and the cell data. You can certainly import VTK surfaces into Caret, using either the File: Open Data File option, or caret_command (command line utility).
I don't know about VTK cell data. Our whole lab is in all-day meetings today and tomorrow, so it might be Thursday before we can check on this. Enter "caret_command -help-full > /tmp/caret_command.txt" at a terminal window and use a text editor to read /tmp/caret_command.txt and search for "file-convert". (If you're on Windows, you'll need to adjust this command accordingly.) > Hi, > > I'm pretty new to Caret, so far I've just been using it for reconstruction > from histological slices and flattening. > > I have some pre-existing VTK surface models in which the polygons have > some > data associated with them, e.g. number tracer labelled cells, visuotopic > information etc. In the VTK text file format, it's called CELL_DATA. > > When I load these surfaces into Caret, it seems this data is not preserved > anywhere. However Caret does seem to support this VTK feature when > exporting - if I colour the surface with a overlay of the mean curvature > and > save a VTK file, I see that it writes out the colouring as CELL_DATA in > the > VTK file. > > My question is, how do I import this polygon data into Caret surfaces? > I'm > thinking I need to import it as a different Caret file, such as a Cell > file. > Is that correct? Should I generate a separate file using the information > at > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/CaretHelpAccount/caret5_help/file_formats/file_formats.html > ? > > Thanks, > Tristan > _______________________________________________ > caret-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users > _______________________________________________ caret-users mailing list [email protected] http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users
