VMTKIMAGESMOOTHING(1)

💖 NAME 💖

vmtkimagesmoothing — it's the vmtk script vmtkimagesmoothing. Short, sweet, iconic. That's literally the whole name section, bestie. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so, automatic piping vmtkimagesmoothing. Parsing options vmtkimagesmoothing. Yes girl, that's the vibe — it pipes and it parses, that's just what it does. 💅

vmtkimagesmoothing : smooth an image with a Gaussian kernel or anisotropic diffusion. That's the whole point of her existence and she serves. 🫶

🎀 Input arguments 🎀

These are the ones you feed her going in. 🌸

• -id — Id (str,1); default=0: the script id. Just so she knows which one she is. 🎀
• -handle — Self (self,1): a handle to self. Look inward bestie, it's giving main character energy. 🪞
• -disabled — Disabled (bool,1); default=0: set this and you disable execution and piping. She's off duty. 💀
• -i — Image (vtkImageData,1): the input image. The actual picture you're about to smoosh into smoothness. 🖼️
• -ifile — ImageInputFileName (str,1): filename for the default Image reader.
• -method — Method (str,1) in ['gauss', 'anisotropic']; default=gauss: pick your fighter — Gaussian kernel or anisotropic diffusion. ✨
• -sigma — StandardDeviation (float,1) >= 0.0; default=1.0: the standard deviation of the Gaussian in real space units (gauss).
• -radiusfactor — RadiusFactor (float,1) >= 0.0; default=5.0: the factor specifing the width of the discrete Gaussian kernel (gauss).
• -dimensionality — Dimensionality (int,1) >= 2 and <= 3; default=3: the dimensionality of the Aconvolution (gauss). So it's 2 or 3, no in-between eras, periodt. 💅
• -conductance — Conductance (float,1) >= 0.0; default=1.0: anisotropic diffustion coefficients (anisotropic).
• -iterations — NumberOfIterations (int,1) >= 5; default=5: number of anisotropic diffusion iterationsl (anisotropic). Minimum is 5, she said no shortcuts. 🔥
• -timestep — TimeStep (float,1) >= 1e-16 and <= 1e+16; default=0.0625: time step of anisotropic diffusion (anisotropic). Big range, tiny default, we love a specific queen. 💜
• -autocalculatetimestep — AutoCalculateTimeStep (bool,1); default=1: auto calculate minimum time step (anisotropic). She'll do the math for you, you're welcome. 🧚
• -ofile — ImageOutputFileName (str,1): filename for the default Image writer.

🦋 Output arguments 🦋

And these are what you get back. The little gift bag at the end. 🎁

• -id — Id (str,1); default=0: the script id.
• -handle — Self (self,1): a handle to self.
• -o — Image (vtkImageData,1): the output image. The glow-up result. 👑
• -timestep — TimeStep (float,1); default=0.0625.

Heads up bestie: -id, -handle and -timestep all show up in both the input and the output argument lists, and -timestep carries a default of 0.0625 on both sides. Not a typo on my part — that's genuinely how she rolls. 🙈

Aaaand that's the whole page. vmtkimagesmoothing version 1.5, from April 2026, living in Manual section 1 (User Commands). Screenshot it, bookmark it, tell your friends — no cap. 🦋🌈⭐