VMTKSURFACETRANSFORM(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the vmtksurfacetransform manual page — yes, the whole vmtksurfacetransform(1) situation, section 1, User Commands, we're doing this together 💅

vmtksurfacetransform — a vmtk script, and it's literally called vmtksurfacetransform. that's the name. iconic of it.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: vmtksurfacetransform does automatic piping, parses your options, and then — this is the main character moment — it transforms a surface with a provided matrix 🔥

vmtksurfacetransform : transform a surface with a provided matrix

no cap, that's the entire plot. now let's get into the arguments, because that's where all the lore is 🎀

💖 Input arguments 💖

• -id — Id (str,1); default=0: the script id 🆔
• -handle — Self (self,1): a handle to self, yes it's giving self-reference, we love a recursive queen 🫶
• -disabled — Disabled (bool,1); default=0: turns off execution and piping. not me flipping this to 1 and wondering why nothing happens 😭
• -i — Surface (vtkPolyData,1): the input surface, aka the thing we're about to serve 🍓
• -ifile — SurfaceInputFileName (str,1): the filename for the default Surface reader 📂
• -matrix4x4 — Matrix4x4 (vtkMatrix4x4,1): the input transform matrix, the whole point of the operation fr fr 👑
• -matrix — MatrixCoefficients (float,16); default=[]: the coefficients of the transform matrix ✨
• -invert — InvertMatrix (bool,1); default=0: inverts the matrix before applying the transformation. flip it, flip it 🔄
• -rotation — Rotation (float,3); default=[0.0, 0.0, 0.0]: rotations around the x-, y- and z-axis 💫
• -translation — Translation (float,3); default=[0.0, 0.0, 0.0]: translation in the x-, y- and z-directions 🚀
• -scaling — Scaling (float,3); default=[1.0, 1.0, 1.0]: scaling of the x-, y- and z-directions, big or smol your call 🌸
• -ofile — SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1): the filename for the default Surface writer 📝

🌈 Output arguments 🌈

• -id — Id (str,1); default=0: the script id, back again, same energy 🆔
• -handle — Self (self,1): a handle to self, also back again 🫶
• -o — Surface (vtkPolyData,1): the output surface, the glow-up result 💖

heads up bestie: some of these are input args, some are output args, and -id and -handle genuinely show up in both lists. that's not a typo, that's just how this page is built. periodt 💀

and that's the whole page, you ate it. this was vmtksurfacetransform version 1.5, from April 2026 — ty for coming to my ted talk, mwah 🎀💜🧚