[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] different orientation of input files

Thu May 17 10:36:46 EDT 2012

Hi,

I have had some success with the Reflect filter. Often the SNAP meshes are reflected about the origin of the image. Thus I do Reflect on the mesh (I always find it easier to transform the mesh rather than the image in Paraview), with Plane set to X / Y / Z as appropriate, and Center set to the Center of the image. 

The Center of the image in Paraview might not agree with what's in the image header, at least not for NIFTI files. You can figure out the Center in Paraview by selecting the image and then looking at the Information tab. The Bounds box will tell you the min and max in each coordinate. For the Reflect filter, you want the Center to be halfway between the min and max bound of the image.

This usually solves my problems with meshes and images not lining up. I'm assuming here that you are loading the same image from which the mesh was defined.

Phil

On May 16, 2012, at 11:53 PM, Tom Schoenemann wrote:

> OK, that worked. I've figured out how it works, following what you suggested.
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> Unfortunately, Paraview didn't just shift the data over, leaving it in the same orientation, it also inexplicably changed the orientation by several degrees (??).  Even if I am able to get the two boxes in basically the same location, the shifted orientation makes it impossible to be confident the data are overlaid in the right places.  This is very frustrating.  Apparently Paraview makes random changes to the orientation??  Why on earth would it do that?
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> -Tom
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> On May 16, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Scott, W Alan wrote:
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>> So, I just tried the following:
>> *Sources/ Wavelet.  Apply.  Display this by Outline.
>> * Filters/ Alphabetical/ Transform.  Translate X by 10.  Apply.
>> * Leaving the Transform filter highlighted in the pipeline browser, Filters/ Common/ Contor.  Apply.
>> * Now, if you turn on visibility of the original Wavelet, you see that the wavelet has moved along with the contour.
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>> Or are you saying you want to move the two different files?  Then, you use two transforms – one per file.
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>> Alan
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>> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Tom Schoenemann
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:41 PM
>> To: Samuel Key
>> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] different orientation of input files
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>> I must be missing something.  It only seems to move the bounding box, but not the location of the contour itself.. Not sure what that would be useful for, but in any case, I need to move the contour and/or data within the workspace, so the two overlap.  Transform is only changing the box, not changing the location of the object within the box.  Again, maybe I'm missing something.
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>> -Tom
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>> On May 16, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Samuel Key wrote:
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>> Tom,
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>> Will the Transform filter work for you? (Filters>Alphabetical>Transform)
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>> It works for me with unstructured meshes. I don't know if it will work with a surface mesh produced ITK-SNAP.
>> 
>> Sam Key
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>> On 5/16/2012 10:29 AM, Tom Schoenemann wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>  
>> I have a question about changing/editing the orientation and origin information about an input file.  Basically, the problem is this: I have a 3D volume (originally voxel data) file that contains statistics on its surface that I want to display color-coded.  I can create a nice smoothed version of the surface using a different piece of software (ITK-SNAP), and this is the surface I'd like to use to display my stats (Paraview does not allow you to smooth the surface in the same way that ITK-SNAP does, eliminating the stair-step surface artifacts).  I can indeed read both the stats file and the surface file from ITK-SNAP into Paraview, but unfortunately they now have different origins. That is, they don't overlap (the bounding box for the stats is completely outside the surface model that ITK-SNAP created.
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>> Originally, both files had the same orientation and origin: ITK-SNAP used the same file to create the beautiful surface that the stats were created with.  
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>> So Paraview apparently does not read the header info the same way for the two types of files, even though ITK-SNAP does.  
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>> Is there a way to change the origin and/or orientation of files in Paraview?  I'm assuming there is a simple transform I could figure out by trial and error to get them to overlap again, but I don't know how or where I would do this.
>>  
>> Thanks for any suggestions!
>>  
>> -Tom
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