VMTKSURFACESMOOTHING(1)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, this is vmtksurfacesmoothing — the vmtk script that's literally called vmtksurfacesmoothing. that's the whole name. she's an icon, she's direct, she ate. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this is the automatic piping of vmtksurfacesmoothing, and it does parsing options for vmtksurfacesmoothing too. Yeah. She said "I contain multitudes." 💖

But the main character moment? vmtksurfacesmoothing smooths a surface using Taubin's algorithm. no cap. that's the whole point of her existence and she's obsessed with it. 🫶

🌸 Input arguments (the stuff you feed her) 🌸

• -id Id — (str,1); default=0. this is the script id, bestie. every girl needs an id.
• -handle Self — (self,1). a handle to self. she's doing self-care, literally, and honestly? we love that for her.
• -disabled Disabled — (bool,1); default=0. turn this on and she just… stops. no execution, no piping. she's on do-not-disturb mode. 💀
• -i Surface — (vtkPolyData,1). THE input surface. the canvas. the moment. give it to her.
• -ifile SurfaceInputFileName — (str,1). the filename for the default Surface reader. like, if you don't wanna hand her the surface directly, you hand her the file and she reads it herself. independent queen. 🎀
• -iterations NumberOfIterations — (int,1), >= 0; default=1. how many times she does the thing, e.g. 25. more iterations = more smoothing. go off.
• -method Method — (str,1) in ['taubin', 'laplace']; default=taubin. picks the smoothing method. two options, both valid, she's not picking favorites. (okay she literally defaults to taubin but whatever.)
• -passband PassBand — (float,1); default=1.0. the pass band, e.g. 0.1. taubin only — bestie, laplace does not want to hear about it. 🙈
• -relaxation RelaxationFactor — (float,1), >= 0.0; default=0.01. the relaxation factor, e.g. 0.01. laplace only — yeah, this one's the flip side of the last one. she said "I don't share." ✨
• -boundarysmoothing BoundarySmoothing — (bool,1); default=1. toggles whether boundary points are allowed to have their position changed. on by default, so yes, she will move them. if you're precious about your boundaries, turn this off. 😭
• -normalize NormalizeCoordinates — (bool,1); default=1. toggles normalization of coordinates before filtering, so you don't get spurious translation effects sneaking in and ruining the vibe. taubin only. only the taubin girlies get this. 🔥
• -ofile SurfaceOutputFileName — (str,1). the filename for the default Surface writer. where she drops the finished product. 🎁

👑 Output arguments (the stuff she hands back) 👑

• -id Id — (str,1); default=0. script id again, obviously. same energy.
• -handle Self — (self,1). handle to self again. she contains herself. it's giving ouroboros but make it cute. 🐍✨
• -o Surface — (vtkPolyData,1). THE output surface. the glow-up reveal. the smoothed serve. 💅

fr fr bestie, this is the whole map. every flag, every default, every type — nothing left out, nothing invented. that's the group-chat promise. 🤝

okay and that's a wrap, babes!! this page is vmtksurfacesmoothing version 1.5, dated April 2026 — thank you for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💖🌸🦋🎀✨