VMTKSURFACETRIANGLE(1)

📦 version 1.5.0, in ubuntu stonking

🌸 VMTKSURFACETRIANGLE 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to section 1 of the User Commands manual, and this little icon right here is the manual page for vmtksurfacetriangle, a vmtk script. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this.

✨ NAME ✨

vmtksurfacetriangle — it's the vmtk script vmtksurfacetriangle. yes bestie, the script is named after itself, it's giving self-titled debut album energy and honestly? iconic. 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Automatic piping vmtksurfacetriangle Parsing options vmtksurfacetriangle

fr fr that's the whole thing up there, that's what the page says, we move. 😭

vmtksurfacetriangle : convert all cells in a surface to linear triangles.

like. that's the mission. every cell in your surface becomes a linear triangle. simple, clean, slay. ✨

🎀 Input arguments 🎀

these are the things you hand it going in, the little offerings, the vibes you provide 💅

  • -id — Id (str,1); default 0 — this is the script id.
  • -handle — Self (self,1) — a handle to self, it's holding its own hand, self-love periodt 🫶
  • -disabled — Disabled (bool,1); default 0 — turn this on and it disables execution and piping. like it just. stops. no cap.
  • -i — Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the input surface, this is the thing you're triangulating bestie 🦋
  • -ifile — SurfaceInputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface reader.
  • -ofile — SurfaceOutputFileName (str,1) — filename for the default Surface writer.

🌈 Output arguments 🌈

and these are what it hands back to you, the lil gifts, the results, the main character moments 👑

  • -id — Id (str,1); default 0 — the script id. yes it's here too. it's in both lists. it contains multitudes. 🙈
  • -handle — Self (self,1) — a handle to self, again, still holding its own hand 💜
  • -o — Surface (vtkPolyData,1) — the output surface, aka your fully linear-triangle-ified masterpiece. ate. 🔥
heads up bestie: -id and -handle show up in both the input and the output argument lists. that's not a typo, that's just the page, and we keep every single detail here 💖

and that's the whole page!! this was vmtksurfacetriangle version 1.5, from April 2026, and it lives in section 1 of the User Commands manual. mwah, go triangulate something, i'm obsessed with you 🧚💅✨

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