[Insight-developers] Re: missing ITK functions document

[Damion Shelton]

Luis's assessment sounds about right to me. SpatialFunctions are a good 
starting point but they aren't (and aren't intended to be) a robust 
description of global shape.

A few other thoughts...

At the NLM meeting, Luis and I talked about extending 
InteriorExteriorSpatialFunctions to include boolean operators; for example, 
syntax for a hollow sphere might look like:

itk::InteriorExteriorSpatialFunction hollow = exterior&&(!interior);

This is a post-beta task. There was also discussion, some months ago, about 
representing masks as InteriorExteriorSpatialFunctions as well (with 
ConditionalIterators as a means of navigating mask-space). If there is 
going to be more interest in this sort of thing, it probably merits further 
discussion.

-Damion-

--On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 8:54 AM -0500 Will Schroeder 
<will.schroeder@kitware.com> wrote:

> I agree that there is overlap. I think a discussion at this Friday's TCON
> is warranted. Damion, could you study this and see how it overlaps? I
> think we'd all prefer to unify this functionality if possible.
>
> Will