VMTKBRANCHMAPPING(1)

💅 vmtkbranchmapping — the vibe check

okay so bestie, welcome to vmtkbranchmapping, aka the vmtk script vmtkbranchmapping — yes it's literally the manual page for a script called vmtkbranchmapping, we love a name that knows itself ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

vmtkbranchmapping — the vmtk script vmtkbranchmapping. periodt. 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Lowkey just getting started: automatic piping vmtkbranchmapping, parsing options vmtkbranchmapping. that's the whole intro, she's brief and she ate 💅

so here's what she actually does, no cap:

vmtkbranchmapping : constructs a harmonic function over each vascular segment; maps and stretches the longitudinal metric to correctly account for the presence of insertion regions at bifurcations; the additional StretchedMapping array is added to the surface 🦋

this is the whole point of the whole script, so like… don't skip it

🫶 Input arguments 🫶

these are the things you hand over, the "here's my data bestie" section 💖

• -id — Id (str, 1); default=0: the script id, it's giving "who am I"
• -handle — Self (self, 1): handle to self, it's holding its own hand, iconic
• -disabled — Disabled (bool, 1); default=0: disable execution and piping, aka the "not right now bestie" switch
• -i — Surface (vtkPolyData, 1)
• -ifile — SurfaceInputFileName (str, 1): filename for the default Surface reader
• -centerlines — Centerlines (vtkPolyData, 1)
• -centerlinesfile — CenterlinesInputFileName (str, 1): filename for the default Centerlines reader
• -referencesystems — ReferenceSystems (vtkPolyData, 1)
• -referencesystemsfile — ReferenceSystemsInputFileName (str, 1): filename for the default ReferenceSystems reader
• -abscissasarray — AbscissasArrayName (str, 1); default=Abscissas
• -normalsarray — NormalsArrayName (str, 1); default=ParallelTransportNormals
• -groupidsarray — GroupIdsArrayName (str, 1); default=GroupIds
• -centerlineidsarray — CenterlineIdsArrayName (str, 1); default=CenterlineIds
• -tractidsarray — TractIdsArrayName (str, 1); default=TractIds
• -referencesystemsnormalarray — ReferenceSystemsNormalArrayName (str, 1); default=Normal
• -radiusarray — RadiusArrayName (str, 1); default=MaximumInscribedSphereRadius
• -blankingarray — BlankingArrayName (str, 1); default=Blanking
• -angularmetricarray — AngularMetricArrayName (str, 1); default=AngularMetric
• -harmonicmappingarray — HarmonicMappingArrayName (str, 1); default=HarmonicMapping
• -abscissametricarray — AbscissaMetricArrayName (str, 1); default=AbscissaMetric
• -boundarymetricarray — BoundaryMetricArrayName (str, 1); default=BoundaryMetric
• -stretchedmappingarray — StretchedMappingArrayName (str, 1); default=StretchedMapping
• -ofile — SurfaceOutputFileName (str, 1): filename for the default Surface writer

👑 Output arguments 👑

and these are what she hands back to you, the little gifts 🎁

• -id — Id (str, 1); default=0: script id, yes again, she contains multitudes
• -handle — Self (self, 1): handle to self, yes again too
• -o — Surface (vtkPolyData, 1)
• -harmonicmappingarray — HarmonicMappingArrayName (str, 1); default=HarmonicMapping
• -boundarymetricarray — BoundaryMetricArrayName (str, 1); default=BoundaryMetric
• -stretchedmappingarray — StretchedMappingArrayName (str, 1); default=StretchedMapping

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that's the whole page bestie, every single flag accounted for, we left nothing behind, not one crumb 🍓

this was vmtkbranchmapping version 1.5, dated April 2026. go forth and map those branches, main character 🦋💜 stay hydrated, read your defaults, mwah 💅✨