[vtkusers] vtkTiffWriter does not write 3d volume

[Richard Whitehead]

David,

My experience is that the ITK filters work very well, can we steal code
from there?

Many thanks,

Richard


On 5 June 2014 05:03, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>



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