WiP: NF: Utility command to make surface renderings

[mih]

For those of us who are mentally incompatible with SUMA ;-)

Lots of docs missing, obviously. Question is: do we want such thing in PyMVPA at all?

[yarikoptic]

we need one, but not only as cmdline utility, but also as a regular python function

advantage of @nno's one though is that it doesn't require any fancy 3d libraries, and theoretically could be improved to work on surfaces loaded straight from FS

[mih]

I assume you are referring to the flat surface plotter? I think these those are somewhat complementary. I rarely use flat maps and often prefer inflated (or partially inflated) surfaces, because I think they are easier to read.

Turning this whole thing into a big function is trivial.

Dependency issue is, and remains, a big bummer -- not much to argue...

[yarikoptic]

yeap -- meant flat surface plotter. @nno -- any chance to get it fixed?

as for this one -- I don't mind any new functionality ;)

[nno]

Thanks for the reminder @yarikoptic; I'll try to look into this in the next few days.

[nno]

See #415 for improved surface plotting functionality.

[mih]

@yarikoptic @nno What about this one? Merge or reject?

[yarikoptic]

does it work for you? for travis? ;-)

[mih]

Works for me. Does travis come with Freesurfer? Should we install it prior
each test run? ;-)
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does it work for you? for travis? ;-)

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[yarikoptic]

for now we could adopt what pysurfer itself is doing:

    - wget --quiet http://faculty.washington.edu/larsoner/fsaverage_min.zip
    - mkdir subjects
    - cd subjects
    - unzip ../fsaverage_min.zip
    - cd ..
    - export SUBJECTS_DIR="${PWD}/subjects"

[mih]

That gives us minimal data, but if you run this command you'll see that it executes actual Freesurfer commands. It needs a full install. Maybe it could be worked around somehow with some effort, but for the 20 lines of plain pysurfer code, I'd rather close this PR unmerged than to spend a day figuring this out. TBH. No worries.