VMTKSURFACETONUMPY(1)

📦 version 1.5.0, in ubuntu stonking

💖 VMTKSURFACETONUMPY 💖

okay bestie, welcome to vmtksurfacetonumpy, section 1 of the User Commands manual, and honestly? it's giving glow up for your meshes. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

vmtksurfacetonumpy — it's a vmtk script, and the script's whole name is vmtksurfacetonumpy. that's it, that's the name. iconic. 👑

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Automatic piping vmtkSurfaceToNumpy Parsing options vmtkSurfaceToNumpy 🌈

So like, here's the vibe: vmtkSurfaceToNumpy takes a VTK triangulated surface vtkPolyData file — and lowkey, that file can optionally carry point data scalar arrays, we love a bonus feature — and it hands you back a nested python dictionary. 📦

And inside that dictionary? numpy arrays, obviously. Specifically arrays that specify:

  • vertex points ✨
  • associated scalar data 💅
  • cell data that yields triangle connectivity 🔺

yeah. it converts, it pipes, it serves. main character energy fr fr.

🌸 Input arguments:

  • -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id
  • -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, it's giving self-awareness 🪞
  • -disabled Disabled (bool,1); default=0 — turns off execution and piping, like a little off switch 🚫
  • -i Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface, the moment, the ✨material✨
  • -ifile SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — the filename for the default Surface reader 📖
  • -celltopoint ConvertCellToPoint (bool,1); default=0 — converts cell data into point data, a lil transformation arc 🦋
  • -ofile ArrayDictOutputFileName (str,1) — the filename for the default ArrayDict writer ✍️

🌟 Output arguments:

  • -id Id (str,1); default=0 — the script id (yes, again, it's in both lists, we don't make the rules, we just ship them) 💖
  • -handle Self (self,1) — handle to self, back for round two 🫶
  • -o ArrayDict (dict,1) — the output dictionary!! the prize!! the whole point!! 🎁
heads up bestie: -id and -handle show up under both Input arguments and Output arguments. that's not me being messy, that's literally the page. also each of the input/output argument lines in the original got split across lines by the formatter — the option, its type annotation and its description all belong together, so that's how I paired them up. 💀

and that's the whole entire page, no skips, no cuts. this beautiful thing is vmtksurfacetonumpy version 1.5, dated April 2026, and it ate. periodt. 💅🎀🦋

bye bestie, go convert some surfaces 💖✨

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