MINCMAKEVECTOR(1)

💖 MINCMAKEVECTOR 💖

okay so this is a page from the MINC User's Guide — it's mincmakevector(1), and bestie, it's literally just here to help you turn a lil pile of boring grayscale files into one iconic vector file. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

mincmakevector — convert a list of scalar minc files into one vector file 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mincmakevector [<options>] <in>.mnc [...] <out>.mnc

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So. mincmakevector takes a whole list of scalar minc files and squishes them together into one vector minc file. no cap. 🫶

And what even is a vector minc file, you ask? it's a file that has the dimension vector_dimension chillin' as the fastest varying dimension of the image data. basically it represents vector data at every single voxel — think RGB images, think gradient volumes. the whole vibe. 🌈

A scalar minc file, on the other hand, does not have the vector dimension, and it's the grayscale / intensity data girlie. simple. clean. iconic. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

heads up bestie: options can be written in abbreviated form (as long as they're unique) and can go anywhere on the command line. yes, anywhere. she's flexible like that. 😌

🌟 General options 🌟

• -2 — makes a MINC 2.0 format output file.
• -clobber — overwrite an existing file. no thoughts, just vibes, bye old file 💀
• -noclobber — don't overwrite an existing file. this is the default.
• -no_clobber — literally just a synonym for -noclobber. same energy.
• -verbose — print out progress info for every chunk of data copied. this is the default, so she's chatty by nature 💬
• -quiet — do not print out progress information. she's giving mysterious.
• -buffer_size size — set the maximum size of the internal buffers, measured in kbytes. default is 10 MB.
• -filetype — create an output file with the same type as the first input file. this is the default.
• -byte — store output voxels as 8-bit integers.
• -short — store output voxels as 16-bit integers.
• -int — store output voxels as 32-bit integers.
• -long — superseded by -int. it's giving legacy, we don't talk about her 🙈
• -float — store output voxels as 32-bit floating point numbers.
• -double — store output voxels as 64-bit floating point numbers.
• -signed — create an output file with data stored in a signed type. this only does anything if one of -byte, -short or -int is specified. iykyk.
• -unsigned — create an output file with data stored in an unsigned type. again, only matters if one of -byte, -short or -int is specified.
• -valid_range min max — create an output file with integer data stored in that specified restricted range. only has an effect if one of -byte, -short or -int is specified. 🍓

🌈 Generic options for all commands 🌈

• -help — print a summary of the command-line options and exit. your little cheat sheet 🫶
• -version — print the program's version number and exit.

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

say you've got files holding the red, green and blue colour components and you want one RGB file. watch this:

mincmakevector red.mnc green.mnc blue.mnc rgb.mnc

and boom. slay. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Peter Neelin

🧚 COPYRIGHTS 🧚

Copyright 1997 by Peter Neelin

and that's the whole page bestie 💜 this was mincmakevector(1) from the MINC User's Guide, and the version/date on the tin is $Date: 2004-05-20 21:52:08 $ — so yes, she's an elder icon and she still ate. periodt. 🎀✨