[vtkusers] .vtk vs .vti

[Bill Lorensen]

Mathieu,

Great point. meta may be our most portable format.

Bill

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> [From the top of my head]
> I would go for MHA/MHD file format, since you are ok with loosing all
> the important information stored in the DICOM file.
> When using .vtk file, by default this is ASCII, which means a real
> mess when dealing with floating point type, and when writing as binary
> it is written as Big Endian (last I checked).
>
> 2cts
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM, michiel mentink
> <michael.mentink at st-hughs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to open a series of dicom images and save them as a volume image
>> file for future opening.
>>
>> (my future plans: marching cubes: convert to surface mesh, register that
>> with another surface mesh using ICP or the like)
>> I noticed that ITKsnap doesn't open .vti files, however it does open .vtk
>> files. ITK writes and opens .vtk files.
>> Because I'm planning to use both ITK and VTK in the future, .vtk would seem
>> to be a good option.
>>
>> However, in the VTK examples, a series of dicom images is saved as .vti
>> Is .vtk obsolete, or is it absolutely fine to keep using that format?
>>
>> What is the advantage of .vti?
>>
>> greets, Michael
>>
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