VMTKBRANCHPATCHING(1)

💖 NAME 💖

ok so bestie, meet vmtkbranchpatching — it's the vmtk script called vmtkbranchpatching, and the fancy manual-page name for all of this is VMTKBRANCHPATCHING(1). 🫶 She's a Unix User Command and she's here to slice and dice your surface, periodt.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Automatic piping, babe. vmtkbranchpatching parses options like it was born to do it — vmtkbranchpatching said "parsing options" and then ate. 💅

vmtkbranchpatching : cut a set of contiguous rectangular regions on a surface that follow iso-contours in the StretchedMapping and AngularMetric arrays.

That's the whole vibe. Rectangular regions, contiguous, following iso-contours, living their best life along the StretchedMapping and AngularMetric arrays. Iconic honestly. 🌸

🎀 Input arguments 🎀

grab your lil notebook, here's every single one, no skipping, fr fr:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0: script id
• -handle Self (self,1): handle to self
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0: disable execution and piping
• -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1)
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1): filename for the default Surface reader
• -patchsize PatchSize (float,2) >= 0.0; default=[0.0, 0.0]
• -longitudinalpatchsize LongitudinalPatchSize (float,1) >= 0.0; default=1.0
• -circularpatches CircularNumberOfPatches (int,1) >= 0; default=1
• -circularpatching CircularPatching (bool,1); default=1
• -connectivity UseConnectivity (bool,1); default=1
• -groupidsarray GroupIdsArrayName (str,1); default=GroupIds
• -longitudinalmappingarray LongitudinalMappingArrayName (str,1); default=AbscissaMetric
• -circularmappingarray CircularMappingArrayName (str,1); default=AngularMetric
• -longitudinalpatchnumberarray LongitudinalPatchNumberArrayName (str,1); default=Slab
• -circularpatchnumberarray CircularPatchNumberArrayName (str,1); default=Sector
• -patchareaarray PatchAreaArrayName (str,1); default=PatchArea
• -ofile SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1): filename for the default Surface writer
• -patcheddatafile PatchedDataOutputFileName (str,1): filename for the default PatchedData writer

🦋 Output arguments 🦋

and the stuff she hands back to you, equally complete, equally slay:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0: script id
• -handle Self (self,1): handle to self
• -o Surface (vtkPolyData,1)
• -patcheddata PatchedData (vtkImageData,1)
• -patchsize PatchSize (float,2); default=[0.0, 0.0]
• -longitudinalpatchnumberarray LongitudinalPatchNumberArrayName (str,1); default=Slab
• -circularpatchnumberarray CircularPatchNumberArrayName (str,1); default=Sector
• -patchareaarray PatchAreaArrayName (str,1); default=PatchArea

💀 tiny warning bestie: -patchsize and -longitudinalpatchsize are the ones wearing the >= 0.0 badge in the input list — keep them non-negative, okay? And -circularpatches is rocking >= 0. Don't fight the constraints, they're doing their job. 🔥

and that's the whole page — every flag, every default, every type, all accounted for. we ate and left no crumbs. 👑

mwah, kisses, that's a wrap — this was vmtkbranchpatching 1.5, dated April 2026, coming at you straight from the VMTKBRANCHPATCHING(1) user-commands manual. love u, bye 🎀✨