[Insight-users] Python Wrapping Coverage for ITK

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Hua,

If you already have created wrappers, please send them to
me or to Brad, and we will check them into the repository.

If you want to propose a wish list, simply post it to the
users-list and we will implement the wrappers.

Thanks a lot,

    Luis


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Hua Qian wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> Thank you every much for your response. I was about to
> follow up the thread myself. I agree that an evolutionary
> approach is more appropriate here.
> 
> By the way I've collected some wrappers from our local
> users. What's the best way to contribute: just giving
> the wish list, or sending the the wrapping files?
> I understand that sometimes it is easier writing code
> yourself and doing quality control.
> 
> Regards,
> Hua
> 
> Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Hua,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your detailed information  about
>> the classes needing wrapping for multi-resolution
>> registration.
>>
>> Wrappers your the classes in your list have been
>> added now.
>>
>> >   MultiResolutionImageRegistrationMethod
>> >   RecursiveMultiResolutionPyramidImageFilter
>> >   ChangeInformationImageFilte
>> >   FlipImageFilter
>> >   NormalizeImageFilter
>> >   PermuteAxesImageFilter
>>
>>
>> Massive wrapping is not impossible but it will be
>> quite impractical. For the classes in BasicFilters
>> it may not be that bad, but when you go to Algorithms
>> and Statistics, there are way too many possible
>> combinations.
>>
>> The "Evolutionary" method of simply wrapping the classes
>> that are being used (and in the context of their use)
>> seems to be the best approach to follow.
>>
>> For this year we are planning in increase a lot the
>> coverage of classes wrapped. So, if you have more
>> classes in you wrapping wish list, please let us know
>> so we can make sure that they got included.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>    Luis
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------
>> Hua Qian wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> As a test drive for my Python-ITK application,
>>> I tried to re-implement the MultiResMIRegistration
>>> application in Python recently. I didn't go very
>>> far before I found that I have to wrap lots of
>>> ITK classes myself, such as
>>>
>>>   MultiResolutionImageRegistrationMethod
>>>   RecursiveMultiResolutionPyramidImageFilter
>>>   ChangeInformationImageFilte
>>>   FlipImageFilter
>>>   NormalizeImageFilter
>>>   PermuteAxesImageFilter
>>>
>>> While it is quick and easy to write a C++ wrapping
>>> file for a class, it is slow to rebuild ITK
>>> every time you add new wrapping files.
>>> Now, I am wondering if I could get all the
>>> building work done in one shot. My questions are:
>>>
>>> Is feasible to wrap all the ITK C++ class (at
>>> least for US3, F3 and combinations) in python
>>> (and Tcl)?
>>>  
>>> Does anyone know the coverage of python/tcl
>>> wrapping in ITK 1.4 distribution? I am talking
>>> about the class base, not all the template
>>> parameter combinations.
>>>
>>> By the way, I attached a little python program
>>> that generates a list of ITK python classes
>>> (output: /usr/tmp/itklist.txt). I use the list
>>> to check what classes are available in Python.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Hua
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> #! /usr/bin/env python
>>>
>>> import InsightToolkit as itk
>>>
>>> file = open('/usr/tmp/itklist.txt', 'w')
>>>
>>> itklist = dir(itk)
>>> for item in itklist:
>>>     file.write(item)
>>>     file.write('\n')
>>>
>>> file.close()
>>
>>
> 
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