VMTKPETERGENERATESURFACE(1)

👑 vmtkpetergeneratesurface(1) — user commands, bestie edition 💅

okay so this is vmtkpetergeneratesurface, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, which is very demure, very mindful of it. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

vmtkpetergeneratesurface — literally just the vmtk script vmtkpetergeneratesurface. that's the name, that's the assignment, she said what she said 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so vmtkPeterGenerateSurface is out here doing automatic piping — and yes, it's also doing Parsing options, because multitasking is her main character era 👑

here's the vibe: vmtkPeterGenerateSurface is a Custom module for generating a surface from image data. that's the whole girlboss job description. surface, out of an image, no cap 🔥

then the page splits into the two little pods of arguments, and honestly? she ate.

✨ Input arguments: ✨

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — this is the script id, her little name tag 🎀
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle back to self. yes she's got a handle to self. self-love fr fr 💖
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — flip this and you disable execution and piping. she's on a break, do not perceive her 🙈
• -i Image (vtkImageData,1) — the input image. the raw material, the blueprint, the moment before the glow-up 🦋
• -ifile ImageInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Image reader. point her at the file and she'll take it from there 📂
• -renderer vmtkRenderer (vmtkRenderer,1) — an external renderer, for when you wanna see what's going on 👀
• -ofile SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface writer. where the finished lewk gets saved 💾

💜 Output arguments: 💜

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id again, because she contains multitudes 🌈
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self again. consistency is iconic ✨
• -o Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — described as the input surface, which is what the page says, so that's what I'm telling you, don't look at me like that 😭
• -otransform Transform (vtkTransform,1) — the transform of the clipped surface. yes, clipped. that's the lore 💅

heads up bestie: the input/output argument names are listed exactly as they appear here — -id and -handle genuinely show up in both lists, and -o genuinely says input surface. that's not me being messy, that's the page. copy them character for character when you're building your pipeline 🫶

🎀 sign-off 🎀

that's the whole page, and honestly it's giving vintage. this was version 1.5 of vmtkpetergeneratesurface, dated April 2026 — so yes, she's from the future and she's still shipping surfaces from image data. slay, periodt, go generate something pretty ⭐🌈💖