Thanks I'll check that out. I can write a program to convert between two data formats if Caret has some appropriate file format. Something where you can assign data to the mesh polygons, so you can then say colour the surface in caret with that data, as you would if it was mean curvature etc. I was hoping it was the cell file?
FYI The problem is I need to cut and then flatten some surface models that have data associated with the polygons. The thing is if I import to Caret, that polygon data is not kept anywhere. Then when I cut the surface and flatten, there are less polygons than there used to be, so when I save the it back as a VTK file I can't even cross reference it to the original VTK file to "look up" the polygon data. Therefore I need to hang on to this data whilst cutting and flattening. Thanks, Tristan On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 23:12, Donna Dierker <do...@brainvis.wustl.edu>wrote: > 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 > > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > caret-users mailing list > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users >
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