VMTKIMAGEVIEWER(1)

🌸 VMTKIMAGEVIEWER 🌸

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about vmtkimageviewer, which is a vmtk script — yes, its name is literally just its own name, the selfie of script names, iconic behavior 💅 — and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, so you already know it's a "run it in your terminal and vibe" situation.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea: there's automatic piping happening with vmtkimageviewer, and there's option parsing happening with vmtkimageviewer. That's the whole opening act, fr fr.

Then the main character moment:

vmtkimageviewer : display a 3D image 🦋

That's it. That's the job. You feed it a 3D image and it shows you the 3D image. Slay.

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💖 INPUT ARGUMENTS 💖

these are the things you hand to the script, like lil gifts 🎀

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id. yes, the script has an id. every diva needs one. 👑
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. that's the script holding its own hand, which is, honestly, self-care. 🫶
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — turns off execution and piping. so if you set it, the whole thing just… doesn't. it's giving "not today." 💀
• -i Image (vtkImageData,1) — the input image. the actual star of the show. ✨
• -ifile ImageInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Image reader, i.e. the "just give me a path and I'll handle it" option. 📁
• -array ArrayName (str,1) — name of the array to display. because sometimes the image has layers and you gotta pick which one eats. 🔥
• -renderer vmtkRenderer (vmtkRenderer,1) — an external renderer. bring your own, bestie. 🎨
• -windowlevel WindowLevel (float,2); default=[0.0, 0.0] — the window/level for displaying the image, and yes it's two floats, it's a lil duo, a matching set. 🌈
• -display Display (bool,1); default=1 — toggle rendering. it's on by default because obviously we're showing the thing, that's literally the point. 👀
• -margins Margins (bool,1); default=0 — toggle margins for tilting image planes. off by default, your planes stay un-margined unless you say otherwise. 🙈
• -textureinterpolation TextureInterpolation (bool,1); default=1 — toggle interpolation of graylevels on image planes. on by default, so it stays smooth and pretty instead of crunchy. 🍓
• -continuouscursor ContinuousCursor (bool,1); default=0 — toggle use of physical continuous coordinates for the cursor. off by default — flip it if you want your cursor living in physical continuous coordinates, which sounds incredibly fancy and lowkey is. 🧚
• -ofile ImageOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Image writer. so it can save the image back out. the full circle moment. 💜

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🌟 OUTPUT ARGUMENTS 🌟

and these are the lil treats it hands back to you when it's done, we love a generous queen 💖

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id again. same energy, now on the way out. ✨
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self again. still holding its own hand. still valid. still iconic. 🫶
• -o Image (vtkImageData,1) — the output image. the after picture. 🔥
• -xplane PlaneWidgetX (vtkImagePlaneWidget,1) — the X image plane widget. that's the left-right one, do not come for me. 🦋
• -yplane PlaneWidgetY (vtkImagePlaneWidget,1) — the Y image plane widget. the other one. 🦋
• -zplane PlaneWidgetZ (vtkImagePlaneWidget,1) — the Z image plane widget. completes the trio, the friend group is fully assembled. 🦋

also quick heads up bestie: -id and -handle show up in both the input list and the output list. that's not a typo, that's just how this script rolls. go with it. 💅

vmtkimageviewer 1.5                April 2026                VMTKIMAGEVIEWER(1)

and that's the whole page, no cap — vmtkimageviewer, version 1.5, dated April 2026, straight out of the User Commands chapter of the manual. periodt. 💖✨🎀