VMTKIMAGEWRITER(1)

💖 VMTKIMAGEWRITER 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the vmtkimagewriter(1) page — it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, and it's literally the vmtk script that gets your image out of vmtk-land and onto your disk. sit down, hydrate, we're doing this 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

vmtkimagewriter — vmtk script vmtkimagewriter

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea, bestie: vmtkimagewriter does the automatic piping thing, then it parses its options, and then — the main character moment — it writes an image to disk. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 💅

vmtkimagewriter : write an image to disk

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🎀 Input arguments 🎀

these are the things you feed it. the input side of the relationship. the ✨receiving✨ energy. 🙈

• -id Id — script id (str,1); default=0
• -handle Self — handle to self (self,1)
• -disabled Disabled — disable execution and piping (bool,1); default=0
• -i Image — the input image (vtkImageData,1). yes bb, the actual picture 🖼️
• -ifile ImageInputFileName — filename for the default Image reader (str,1)
• -f Format — file format (str,1), and it has to be one of ['vtkxml', 'vtk', 'meta', 'tiff', 'png', 'pointdata', 'vtsxml']
• -guessformat GuessFormat — guess file format from extension (bool,1); default=1. it's giving detective 🔍
• -useitk UseITKIO — use ITKIO mechanism (bool,1); default=1
• -transform ApplyTransform — apply transform on writing - ITKIO only (bool,1); default=0
• -ofile OutputFileName — output file name (str,1)
• -o OutputFileName — output file name (str,1) — deprecated: use -ofile ⚠️ she's old, be nice to her but use the new one
• -rawfile OutputRawFileName — name of the output raw file - meta image only (str,1)
• -d OutputDirectoryName — output directory name - png, tiff (str,1)
• -r PixelRepresentation — output scalar type (str,1) in ['double', 'float', 'short']
• -windowlevel WindowLevel — window and level for mapping graylevels to 0-255 before writing - png, tiff (float,2); default=[1.0, 0.0]
• -matrix RasToIjkMatrixCoefficients — (float,16); default=None

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👑 Output arguments 👑

and these are what it hands back to you. the giving side. slay 🫶

• -id Id — script id (str,1); default=0
• -handle Self — handle to self (self,1)

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bestie reminder: -transform is ITKIO only, -rawfile is meta image only, and -d + -windowlevel are png, tiff girlies. don't mix up the friend groups 💀

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🌈 and that's the whole page!! this was vmtkimagewriter version 1.5, dated April 2026 — thank you for coming to my ted talk, go write some images, you absolute icon 👑💜