VMTKSURFACENORMALS(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to vmtksurfacenormals — that's the manual page VMTKSURFACENORMALS(1) for ya, living in section 1 (User Commands) 💅 and fr fr it's just: vmtk script vmtksurfacenormals.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the page literally opens with: Automatic piping vmtksurfacenormals Parsing options vmtksurfacenormals. iconic of it, honestly.

and then, the actual tea ☕:

vmtksurfacenormals : compute normals to a surface — that's the whole job, no cap. it looks at your surface and works out the normals for it. that's it, that's the plot. 🌸

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📥 Input arguments

aka the stuff you feed it before it does its little dance. one bullet per option, all the flags, all the types, all the defaults — no skipping, we don't do that here 💖

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — this is the script id. just a lil name tag so the script knows which one it is 🎀
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. yes it's holding its own hand, main character energy ✨
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — flip this on to disable execution and piping. basically a "do not disturb" sign 🙈
• -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface. this is the thing you're doing all this for 🫶
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface reader. it reads your surface from a file, easy 💜
• -normalsarray NormalsArrayName (str,1); default=Normals — the name of the array where the normals have to be stored. naming rights, slay 👑
• -autoorientnormals AutoOrientNormals (bool,1); default=1 — it will try to auto orient normals outwards. note the "try", bestie, it's doing its best 😭
• -consistency Consistency (bool,1); default=1 — it will try to orient normals so that neighboring points have similar orientations. again: try. we love a humble icon 🌈
• -cellnormals ComputeCellNormals (bool,1); default=0 — compute cell normals instead of point normals. it's giving "choose your fighter" ⭐
• -flipnormals FlipNormals (bool,1); default=0 — flips the normals after computing them. post-credits plot twist 🔥
• -ofile SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface writer. where your beautiful new surface goes to live 🍓

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📤 Output arguments

what it hands back to you when it's done being fabulous 💅

• -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id again. same lil name tag, different section, it's a whole vibe 🎀
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self. still holding its own hand, still iconic ✨
• -o Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the output surface. this is the glow-up version of what you gave it 🦋

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ngl the moral of this page is literally just: normals get computed on a surface, and there are a lot of knobs for that. that's the whole arc 🧚

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and that's the page, bestie 🫶 this was vmtksurfacenormals 1.5, dated April 2026 — mwah, periodt 💖🌸