Amira Tools

A collection of Amira scripts and various examples (data, networks, etc.) are provided in /usr/local/amiratools. Some are general purpose tools, some mainly for animation and some are for more specific data or applications. All are available for your use and as examples of how scripts are written for Amira.

RECENT CHANGES

Changes have been made to several of the tools here to clean things up and to provide some consistency among tools that are similar or related.

KeyFrameStepper and SnapScript have the same set of parameters for their common features. This include frame capture enable, offscreen rendering enable, directory name, image type and image size. Additional checks for directory existence and writability have been added to each.

The directory /usr/local/amiratools/old contains copies of the previous versions of tools so that if there are problems with the newer versions, the older ones are still available.

LIST OF TOOLS

ANIMATION TOOLS

SnapScript take screen snap shots at each time step during the play back of a time series (identical to SnapScriptTwo)

KeyFrameStepper controls the key frame camera path editor while taking screen snap shots at each time step

mkpath AWK script to produce new KeyFrameCamPath script with explicit camera position/orientation commands for EACH time step (linear interpolation ONLY)

longer PERL script to multiply number of time steps between key frames in KeyFrameCamPath sequence by some factor

GENERAL TOOLS

Reorientation provides several methods for adjusting or resetting the camera orientation in viewers

ScaleTime used with a time based sequence (integers), ScaleTime provides a way to scale the time interval by a real number which can be used to drive module DisplayTime

FireIsoSurface sets the threshold value of an isosurface module based on Time then fires the isosurface module; can be used to animate the range of possible isosurfaces

EXAMPLE SCRIPTS , etc.

ExistsSurfaceView.scro script that tests for existence of an instance of the module with the name SurfaceView

master_control.hx example net and data from TGS using master_control.scro

master_control.scro example script showing how to control parameters for two modules simultaneously

recordPath.scro example script for recording a series of snapshots in conjunction with KeyFrameCamPath

simpleRecord.scro example script for recording a series of snapshots (basis for SnapScript)

simpleRecordev2.scro example script for recording a series of snapshots (basis for SnapScript)

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ANIMATION TOOLS
	SnapScript	take screen snap shots at each time step during the play back of a time series (identical to SnapScriptTwo)
	KeyFrameStepper	controls the key frame camera path editor while taking screen snap shots at each time step
	mkpath	AWK script to produce new KeyFrameCamPath script with explicit camera position/orientation commands for EACH time step (linear interpolation ONLY)
	longer	PERL script to multiply number of time steps between key frames in KeyFrameCamPath sequence by some factor

GENERAL TOOLS
	Reorientation	provides several methods for adjusting or resetting the camera orientation in viewers
	ScaleTime	used with a time based sequence (integers), ScaleTime provides a way to scale the time interval by a real number which can be used to drive module DisplayTime
	FireIsoSurface	sets the threshold value of an isosurface module based on Time then fires the isosurface module; can be used to animate the range of possible isosurfaces

EXAMPLE SCRIPTS , etc.
	ExistsSurfaceView.scro	script that tests for existence of an instance of the module with the name SurfaceView
	master_control.hx	example net and data from TGS using master_control.scro
	master_control.scro	example script showing how to control parameters for two modules simultaneously
	recordPath.scro	example script for recording a series of snapshots in conjunction with KeyFrameCamPath
	simpleRecord.scro	example script for recording a series of snapshots (basis for SnapScript)
	simpleRecordev2.scro	example script for recording a series of snapshots (basis for SnapScript)