This repository contains SlicerSurfaceToolbox extension for 3D Slicer, which consists of modules for supporting cleanup and optimization processes on surface models.
The associated modules are integrated into Slicer as remote modules and distributed within the official Slicer package available at https://download.slicer.org.
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SurfaceToolbox: Support various cleanup and optimization processes on surface models.
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DynamicModeler: Provide an extensible framework for automatic processing of mesh nodes by executing "Tools" on the input to generate output mesh.
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Decimation: Perform topology-preserving reduction of surface triangles. This module is internally used by the
SurfaceToolbox.
Questions regarding this extension should be posted on 3D Slicer forum: https://discourse.slicer.org
The original SurfaceToolbox python module was created by Lucas Antiga (Orobix) in 2013, integrated into Slicer by Steve Pieper (BWH), and maintained by the Slicer community in the main Slicer source repository.
In June 2019, Bea Paniagua (Kitware) shared on the Slicer forum plans to revamp the MeshMath functionalities into the SurfaceToolbox. Ben Wilson (Kitware Summer intern 2019) with input from Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin (Kitware) and Andras Lasso (Queens) started to work on improving and modularizing the project.
In July 2019, this GitHub project was created by extracting the history from the main Slicer repository.
In May 2021, the Dynamic Modeler module was added by Kyle Sunderland and Andras Lasso from the PerkLab at Queen's University.
In June 2021, C++ CLI modules performing trivial tasks were removed and added as python functions by Andras Lasso to the SurfaceToolbox python module by leveraging VTK python API.
This project is distributed under the BSD-style Slicer license allowing academic and commercial use without any restrictions. Please see the LICENSE file for details.