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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">3D Slicer does indeed have a lot of functionality, and we use it within our department. However, the project I am working on is primarily
concerned with Interaction and User Interface, so we are using VTK within Unity. By default Unity’s units are metres, and we stuck with that. However, since we made that decision we now know more about Unity, and their advice is to scale assets/worlds etc.
as appropriate if metres isn’t appropriate. So effectively it’s unitless, but by default the unitless units are metres. If that makes sense. In the end metres works for us pretty well as we are developing room scale applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I think it is similar for VTK, for one application there may be a default unit, but for another application a different one. I imagine
tracking these and ensuring they all work would be a bit of a nightmare/ basically impossible to ensure. So it and responsibility are left up to the user. My solution to this isn’t elegant – for variables with a unit I suffix them ‘m’ or ‘mm’ or ‘s’ etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> vtkusers <vtkusers-bounces@public.kitware.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 November 2018 16:42<br>
<b>To:</b> matthew.troke@avalonholographics.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> David Gobbi <david.gobbi@gmail.com>; Steve Pieper <pieper@isomics.com>; vtkusers@public.kitware.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [vtkusers] World Units<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Matt, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Units are intended to be used to describe the quantity of a given object. Units should help the application to be smarter about how the user can access/view/interact with the data. For example, units help the user by displaying the current
unit in spinboxes as a suffix (1.3mm instead of 1.3). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more details, see <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slicer.org%2Fwiki%2FDocumentation%2FNightly%2FDevelopers%2FUnits&data=01%7C01%7Cgavin.wheeler%40kcl.ac.uk%7Cc4187c8b6527455345b708d64fd051f7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=SZNXij8JTJ3ygHwkERKMDuI7cZIAfvY9Z3gMbDM0jlo%3D&reserved=0">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:28 AM Matthew Troke <<a href="mailto:matthew.troke@avalonholographics.com">matthew.troke@avalonholographics.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could you elaborate a little more on support for units in Slicer? What do you mean by "built-in"?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:41 PM Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <<a href="mailto:jcfr@kitware.com" target="_blank">jcfr@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are working with medical data, you could look at 3D slicer (<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslicer.org&data=01%7C01%7Cgavin.wheeler%40kcl.ac.uk%7Cc4187c8b6527455345b708d64fd051f7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=Fyl%2Bs0UrSdZr5XCP3SUK4yTawu77%2FFIb7qPC7z1lM80%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://slicer.org</a>),
it leverages VTK and ITK and also has the notion of units built-in.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Using mm for medical image data (with the exception of microscopy) is the most common choice. I certainly wouldn't recommend using anything else. I've also noticed the need to tweak volume rendering depending on resolution.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:00 AM Wheeler, Gavin via vtkusers <<a href="mailto:vtkusers@public.kitware.com" target="_blank">vtkusers@public.kitware.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We’ve not been using OpenVR directly, but have been using it indirectly with medical data. We ended
up using m as the real world units, and then scaling loaded medical data by a factor of 1000 to convert from the commonly used mm, to m. This has worked well, but there are the odd gotchas when doing this– watch out for things like volume rendering step size
which you may also need to scale.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<<a href="mailto:vtkusers-bounces@public.kitware.com" target="_blank">vtkusers-bounces@public.kitware.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ken Martin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 19 November 2018 16:22<br>
<b>To:</b> Dave Demarle <<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:vtkusers@public.kitware.com" target="_blank">vtkusers@public.kitware.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [vtkusers] World Units</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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