[vtkusers] vtkTiffWriter does not write 3d volume

[David Gobbi]

Hi Richard,

VTK already uses libtiff. Matheus has been looking into adding
the libtiff calls to the writer that will allow it to write 3D files.

Even with libtiff, writing 3D tiff files is not straightforward.  TIFF
has many mutually-incompatible ways of storing 3D data:
1) multi-page TIFF
2) tiled TIFF
3) Zeiss' 3D TIFF (non-standard, proprietary)
4) SGI's 3D TIFF (non-standard, proprietary)

 - David


Unfortunately, TIFF provides provides two standard ways, and
several non-

  David




On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Richard Whitehead
<richard.whitehead at vivosight.com> wrote:
>
> Marcus,
>
> I understand libtiff has a good reputation and VTK can be made to use it,
> have you tried this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Marcus D. Hanwell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 5:22 PM
> To: Richard Whitehead
> Cc: VTK Users
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtkTiffWriter does not write 3d volume
>
>
> Richard, Matheus,
>
> I made several volume related updates to the TIFF reader in VTK
> master, but had little need for writing (added support for 32 bit
> float, accelerated volume reading times). It would be great to bring
> them back into parity, I can point to the relevant commits in the
> reader. I will see if I can get to the writer, but make no promises on
> timescale as it is not a priority in my current project.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Richard Whitehead
> <richard.whitehead at vivosight.com> wrote:
>>
>> Matheus,
>>
>> I used ITK instead!  This was OK as a workaround for me since I was
>> processing files to produce other files; but when the data is in memory it
>> will not be a good solution.
>>
>> Richard