VMTKCENTERLINEATTRIBUTES(1)

📦 version 1.5.0, in ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

vmtkcenterlineattributes — bestie, it's a vmtk script, and yeah, that is literally the whole vibe of the name. No notes. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: automatic piping, vmtkcenterlineattributes, parsing options, vmtkcenterlineattributes. That's the pipeline energy we're working with, and it's iconic. ✨

Here's the tea, fr fr: vmtkcenterlineattributes computes centerline attributes like abscissa and parallel transport normals. And — no cap — this is a requried step for mapping. (Yes, the original manpage spells it like that, and we are respectfully preserving the artifact. 🙈 It's basically the vtk version of a typo'd tattoo. We love her.)

🎀 Input arguments 🎀

These are the things you hand over to the script. Think of it as packing your little bag before the function starts its main character arc. 👑

  • -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 Centerlines (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface
  • -ifile CenterlinesInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Centerlines reader
  • -abscissasarray AbscissasArrayName (str,1); default=Abscissas — name of the array where centerline abscissas have to be stored
  • -normalsarray NormalsArrayName (str,1); default=ParallelTransportNormals — name of the array where parallel transport normals to the centerlines have to be stored
  • -ofile CenterlinesOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Centerlines writer
Lowkey the -i one says "the input surface," which for a centerlines attribute script is... a choice 😭 but that's what the manpage says, so that's what we're saying. Fidelity first, always. 🫶

🌸 Output arguments 🌸

And here's what comes back out the other side. The glow-up. The after-photo. ⭐

  • -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id
  • -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self
  • -o Centerlines (vtkPolyData,1)
  • -abscissasarray AbscissasArrayName (str,1); default=Abscissas — name of the array where centerline abscissas are stored
  • -normalsarray NormalsArrayName (str,1); default=ParallelTransportNormals — name of the array where parallel transport normals to the centerlines are stored
Not me pointing out that -id and -handle show up in both the input and the output lists, and -abscissasarray / -normalsarray do too — just with slightly different descriptions. It's giving "shows up to both parties." We don't make the rules, we just transcribe them. 💀

And that's the whole page, bestie, start to finish, nothing skipped, nothing invented. 🌈

Cute little sign-off for the metadata, because she deserves it: this beauty lives in the vmtkcenterlineattributes 1.5 era, dated April 2026, filed under VMTKCENTERLINEATTRIBUTES(1) in the User Commands set. Periodt. 👑💖

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