VMTKNUMPYWRITER(1)

✨ VMTKNUMPYWRITER 💾

okay bestie, welcome to the vmtknumpywriter page — it's a User Command straight out of the vmtk fam, and it's lowkey one of the most useful little goblins in the toolbox 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

vmtknumpywriter — it's the vmtk script vmtknumpywriter, no cap. That's it, that's the name, slay 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like. Automatic piping vmtkNumpyWriter Parsing options vmtkNumpyWriter. That's the vibe, that's the whole energy ✨

vmtkNumpyWriter : Writes a dictionary containing a nested dictionary of numpy arrays (generated by vmtkcenterlinestonumpy, vmtkimagetonumpy, or vmtksurface to numpy) to disk as either a python pickle object or as hdf5 file 🎀

🧚 Input arguments: 🧚

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id, it's giving "which script am I" energy 💅
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, yes she's holding her own hand, iconic 👑
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — disable execution and piping 🙈
• -i ArrayDict (dict,1) — the input array dictionary, this is the moment ✨
• -ifile ArrayDictInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default ArrayDict reader 🌸
• -ofile OutputFileName (str,1) — the output file name, where the magic lands 💾
• -compression Compression (str,1) >= 1 and <= 0; default=1 — Boolean value to compress hdf5 dataset files using gzip, default=1 🗜️
• -compressionlevel CompressionLevel (str,1) >= 0 and <= 9; default=4 — Specify compression level for gzip compressed hdf5 files. Must be an intiger from 0 to 9, higher levels have more compression, but take longer to process. Default=4 🐢✨
• -format Format (str,1) in ['pickle', 'hdf5']; default=pickle — write files as pickled object or hdf5 file format, pick your fighter 🥒 vs 🗂️

🦋 Output arguments: 🦋

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id, she's back 💅
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, again, we stan a self-sufficient queen 🫶

ngl bestie, that -compression range is literally written as >= 1 and <= 0, so… read it as written, okay? no notes, just vibes 💀

okay that's the whole page!! this one's vmtknumpywriter version 1.5, dated April 2026, and the manual it lives in is VMTKNUMPYWRITER(1). go write some numpy arrays to disk, main character 💖✨🎀🦋🌸