HI,
I am fascinated by this video made by James Stains from USC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eql5c4m_N68 It is a brain tractography from diffusion data, but he is able to show the tracts stemming, which is impossible with all softwares I konw (tracvis, MRItrix, DSI studio...). It is clearly an animation made with some modeling tools liks Blender or 3Dstudio.
How do yuo think are the steps?
Do you generate VTK and then open them on Blender? Or what?
I can't help you with blender, but I think that something more or less similar could be feasible in SurfIce. Not 100% sure because I never worked with tracks, but you can make animations with for loops, at least. Surely it would be easier than with blender, not the same quality though.
Hope it helps.
thanks, it seems a nice rendering, not sure it is the same thing it was used
The quality of video is not enough to say something about rendering technique. Based on the video description it was "created by scientific animator Jim Stanis" and "shows selected pathways in the atlas they created". It can be based on VTK as well as on own rendering framework. As for me, simple line primitives were used for tracks visualization, from totally transparent to opaque for new ROI appearing and with some transparency for old ones. Surely, VTK usage can simplify this workflow.
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