VMTKSURFACEBOOLEANOPERATION(1)

💖 NAME 💖

vmtksurfacebooleanoperation — bestie, it's a vmtk script, and yes the script is literally just called vmtksurfacebooleanoperation, we're keeping it 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so listen. vmtksurfacebooleanoperation does automatic piping, and it does it so well. Not to be that girl but the vibes here are: the script parses your options, sets up the piping, and handles all the vmtksurfacebooleanoperation business for you. no cap. 🫶

here's the whole deal, in one breath:

vmtksurfacebooleanoperation : perform a boolean operation between two

• surfaces

fr fr, that's the entire assignment. two surfaces walk in, one surface walks out. main character energy 👑

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🧚 Input arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id, iykyk ✨
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, it's giving very self-aware of it tbh 🪞
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — flip this and you disable execution and piping. like, it just stops doing the thing. lowkey useful, highkey chaotic 🙈
• -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface. this is surface number one, the moment 💖
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface reader 📖
• -i2 Surface2 (vtkPolyData,1) — the second input surface. yes bestie, you need two, it's a two surface kind of operation 🦋
• -i2file Surface2InputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface2 reader 📖
• -tolerance Tolerance (float,1) >= 0.0; default=1e-06 — the tolerance for considering two points coincident. so like, how close do two points gotta be before we're like "okay same point, periodt"? that's this number. and it's gotta be >= 0.0, no negatives, we don't do that here ✋
• -operation Operation (str,1) in ['union', 'intersection', 'difference']; default=union — the boolean operation to be performed. union, intersection, or difference, pick your fighter 🌈
• -method Method (str,1) in ['default', 'loop']; default=default — the method used for the boolean operation 🔥
• -ofile SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface writer ✍️

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🎀 Output arguments:

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id (yes again, she contains multitudes)
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self (also again, obsessed with the consistency)
• -o Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the output surface. THE moment. the glow-up. the one that gets written out 💖✨

ngl bestie, if you're piping these scripts together, remember -id, -handle and -disabled show up in both the input and output lists, and that's not a typo, that's just how the piping works. 🫶

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that's the whole page, and you ate it 🍓

sign-off time: this was vmtksurfacebooleanoperation, version 1.5, dated April 2026, and the manual page header/footer situation was literally just the title and the version doing a little mirror thing on either end. slay. 💜