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Re: How to export programmatically a volume with IVOLUME to images [message #60321]

Tue, 20 May 2008 05:38

Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article
<d088ae51-68be-4983-b361-666923cef317@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
"yingjie, Peng" <yingjiepeng@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to make a short animation of my rotating volume data. I
> think this could be done by rotating the volume a small angle each
> time and export corresponding image and then put the images sequence
> together. One can use XVOLUME, XVOLUME_ROTATE and XVOLUME_WRITE_IMAGE
> to get this job done easily, however iVOLUME offers more possible
> choices of configurations, which I prefer to.
>
> I already figured out how to rotate the ivolume object
> programmatically by:
> idTool = itgetcurrent(TOOL=oTool)
> temp = oTool->FindIdentifiers('*DATA SPACE',/VISUALIZATIONS)
> idDataSpace = temp[0]
> oDataSpace = oTool->GetByIdentifier(idDataSpace)
> oDataSpace->GetProperty, PARENT=oDataSpaceRoot
> oDataSpaceRoot->Rotate, [0,0,1], 20
> oTool->RefreshCurrentWindow
>
> But after hours� attempt, I still do not know how to export the image
> from the ivolume. Of course I can choose �export� to file from the
> ivolume menu and then I have to do this hundreds of times to make a
> animation :(
> I found David had some similar explanations here:
> http://www.dfanning.com/itool_tips/newdata.html
> but it seems to me this will only work with iImage�
>
> I am not experienced at all with iTools Object Classes and any
> suggestions or clues would be greatly appreciated.
>
> with best regards,
> Yingjie

You can download my IDL library (bowman_lib.zip) from here

http://idl.tamu.edu/Downloads.html

It contains routines to do what you want.

Ken Bowman

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		Re: How to export programmatically a volume with IVOLUME to images By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 20 May 2008 05:38
		Re: How to export programmatically a volume with IVOLUME to images By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 19 May 2008 20:12
		Re: How to export programmatically a volume with IVOLUME to images By: David Fanning on Mon, 19 May 2008 19:08
		Re: How to export programmatically a volume with IVOLUME to images By: yingjie, Peng on Tue, 20 May 2008 15:19

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