[vtkusers] Does VTK support loading MRC files ?

[Ashika Umanga Umagiliya]

Hi Lassi ,Marcus ,

Thanks alot for the reply.
Lassi, your source code is going to be very useful for us.

Best Regards,

On 5 April 2011 17:15, Lassi Paavolainen <lassi.paavolainen at jyu.fi> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I just remembered that MRC file actually specifies machine stamp field, it
> just wasn't set on that one mrc file that we had problems. So I made a
> change now that also data type field is checked to have some reasonable
> value and if not then byte ordering is changed. New version available at:
>
> http://bioimagexd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bioimagexd/bioimagexd/trunk/vtkBXD/Processing/vtkMRCReader.cxx?revision=1691
>
> Cheers,
> Lassi
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Lassi Paavolainen wrote:
>
>  Hi Marcus and Ashika,
>>
>> BioImageXD has vtk reader for MRC file format available at:
>>
>> http://bioimagexd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bioimagexd/bioimagexd/trunk/vtkBXD/Processing/vtkMRCReader.cxx?revision=1690
>>
>> http://bioimagexd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bioimagexd/bioimagexd/trunk/vtkBXD/Processing/vtkMRCReader.h?revision=1690
>>
>> We have used it without problems to read several mrc files. I've only had
>> one file that it currently reads wrongly since vtkMRCReader doesn't handle
>> different byte orderings at the moment. Format itself doesn't specify that,
>> but its easy to conclude that from values read from MRC file. I plan to make
>> that small change to reader soon.
>>
>> Unfortunately its GPL licensed, but I think we can re-license it as BSD if
>> needed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lassi Paavolainen
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>>
>>  On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Ashika Umanga Umagiliya
>>> <aumanga at biggjapan.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings all,
>>>> I want to load volume data (vtkImageData) from MRC files.
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC_(file_format)
>>>> Does VTK support this format?
>>>> Thank in advace.
>>>>
>>>>  I am not aware of current support, but would certainly be interested
>>> in adding support for the format. The spec looks quite
>>> straightforward, if you (or someone else) interested in adding this
>>> contributed a reader, along with an example file, it looks like it
>>> would be quite straightforward to write. I should be able to help in
>>> getting it integrated.
>>>
>>> I am working with other formats from computational chemistry, but this
>>> is not currently in scope for the work I am doing.
>>>
>>> Marcus
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> BioImageXD (http://www.bioimagexd.net)
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