[vtkusers] 3D wireframe editor

Gib Bogle g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Oct 4 16:33:17 EDT 2011


No solution yet, Jorge, and I couldn't see how to do this with Blender (I need a 
file format to transfer data in and out, and although .x3d is one import/export 
option, it doesn't seem to export vertices and edges that are not part of a 
face).  Will try your suggestion.

Thanks
Gib

On 4/10/2011 10:51 p.m., Jorge Ballesteros wrote:
> Hi Gib,
>
> Not sure if you've already solved this, but you might want to give a try to 
> this script:
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/CNS/RESEARCH/Vis/VTKBlender/VTKBlender.py
>
> is a bit old, but it works on blender 2.4x.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz 
> <mailto:g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Marco, I'll have a a look.
>
>     Gib
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Marco Nawijn [nawijn at gmail.com <mailto:nawijn at gmail.com>]
>     Sent: Saturday, 24 September 2011 7:22 a.m.
>     To: Gib Bogle
>     Cc: vtkusers
>     Subject: Re: [vtkusers] 3D wireframe editor
>
>     Hi Gib,
>
>     What about blender (www.blender.org <http://www.blender.org>). I am not
>     sure how you would get your dat into blender, but for sure it has enough
>     power to edit your wireframe.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Marco
>
>
>
>     On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz
>     <mailto:g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz>> wrote:
>
>     > Hi,
>     > I have developed a set of procedures to extract vessel centrelines from
>     a 3D image of a vascular network (luminally labelled).  As you'd expect,
>     the result is not perfect.  The deficiencies are mainly at the level of
>     the capillaries - the staining is often weak in the fine vessels,
>     resulting in many gaps between arterial and venous capillaries.  I am now
>     exploring options for manually improving the extracted network.  What
>     would be ideal is a 3D editting program that overlaid the 3D tiff with the
>     wireframe of the centrelines, and allowed editting of the wireframe.
>      That's a big ask (it would be a very useful tool, but developing it would
>     be a considerable task), but I'm wondering if there exists a program for
>     displaying and modifying a 3D wireframe.  In this case the original 3D
>     tiff could be viewed simultaneously in a separate window.
>     >
>     > Any suggestions?
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     > Gib
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