VMTKSURFACEREGIONDRAWING(1)

💖 NAME 💖

vmtksurfaceregiondrawing — literally the name, bestie, no notes. It's a vmtk script, and yes it lives in section 1 (User Commands), iykyk. ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so here's the vibe: vmtksurfaceregiondrawing does the automatic piping thing, and it parses options. That's it, that's the boilerplate. 🫶

But the actual main character energy? This script draws a closed contour on a surface and generates a distance field on the surface. Iconic. 💅

🌸 Input arguments 🌸

• -id Id (str,1) — default=0: the script id. it's just the id, girl.
• -handle Self (self,1) — a handle to self. self-care, but as a parameter. 🪞
• -disabled Disabled (bool,1) — default=0: when you flip this on, execution and piping get disabled. it's the "not today" switch. 💀
• -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface. the canvas. the moment. 🎨
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface reader, aka where the surface comes from when you're not passing one in directly.
• -binary Binary (bool,1) — default=1: fills the contour with the inside value instead of the distance to the contour. so it's giving "filled in" rather than "how far am I from the edge". 🔥
• -inside InsideValue (float,1) — default=0.0: the value that fills the surface within the contour. ✨
• -outside OutsideValue (float,1) — default=1.0: the value that fills the surface outside the contour. the other side of the line, fr fr.
• -array ContourScalarsArrayName (str,1) — default=ContourScalars: the name of the array where the generated scalars get stored. name your child, basically. 💖
• -renderer vmtkRenderer (vmtkRenderer,1) — an external renderer. bring your own, bestie.
• -ofile SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface writer. where it all gets written down. 📝

👑 Output arguments 👑

• -id Id (str,1) — default=0: script id, again. she's back. 🙈
• -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, also back.
• -o Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the output surface. the finished lewk. ✨🦋

ngl, -id and -handle really said "we're in both lists" and honestly? valid.

That's the whole page, and it's vmtksurfaceregiondrawing 1.5, dated April 2026, from the VMTKSURFACEREGIONDRAWING(1) manual. go slay some contours. 💜🌈⭐