VMTKSURFACEENDCLIPPER(1)

💖 VMTKSURFACEENDCLIPPER(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a User Commands page (section 1 of the manual, iykyk) for vmtksurfaceendclipper from the vmtk squad. pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're learning ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vmtksurfaceendclipper — literally the vmtk script called vmtksurfaceendclipper. that's the name. she's straightforward like that 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Automatic piping vmtksurfaceendclipper Parsing options vmtksurfaceendclipper

vmtksurfaceendclipper : interactively clip a tubular surface with normals estimated at seed locations. It is recomended that the option to clip based on centerlines normals is enabled to increase the accuracy of the clipping. If desired, a centerline containing the Frenet Tangent Array must be fed in along with the surface. This is generated by passing a centerline through the vmtkcenterlinegeometry script.

ngl bestie, the accuracy tea is REAL — flipping on the centerline-normals option is the recommended move and it's giving "trust me, turn it on" energy. and if you want that centerline, it does not spawn out of nowhere: you have to generate it by passing a centerline through vmtkcenterlinegeometry. no shortcuts, no cap 🫶

✨ Input arguments ✨

these are the things you feed her on the way in 🍓

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — disable execution and piping
• -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface reader
• -centerlinenormal CenterlineNormals (bool,1); default=0 — toggle using centerline tangent for normal estimation
• -centerlines Centerlines (vtkPolyData,1) — the input centerlines
• -centerlinesfile CenterlinesInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Centerlines reader
• -frenettangentarray FrenetTangentArrayName (str,1); default=FrenetTangent — name of the array where centerline tangent vectors of the Frenet reference system are stored
• -renderer vmtkRenderer (vmtkRenderer,1) — external renderer
• -ofile SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface writer

👑 Output arguments 👑

and these are the little gifts she hands back on the way out 💖

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — script id
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self
• -o Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the output surface

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heads up bestie: -id and -handle show up twice, once going in and once coming out. that's not a glitch, that's just her showing up for both the input list and the output list. main character energy in two places at once 😭

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and that's the whole page! every flag, every type, every default, all present and accounted for, no detail left behind. slay.

🧚 this has been vmtksurfaceendclipper version 1.5, dated April 2026, brought to you by the folks who write User Commands pages for vmtk. periodt. 💅✨🌷