Hi Alex, We do have some instructions on manually flattening a partial hemisphere that may be helpful: http://brainvis.wustl.edu/CaretHelpAccount/caret5_help/misc/flattening_manual.html
----------------------------------- John Harwell j...@brainvis.wustl.edu Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Washington University School of Medicine 660 S. Euclid Ave Box 8108 Saint Louis, MO 63110 On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Alex Artaki wrote: > Hello, > > I am quite new to Caret. In short, I wish to produce a flat representation of > a single fold of Macaque visual cortex which includes the postlunate gyrus > and lunate sulcus. Cross-sections of the comprising contours are S-shaped > (the fiducial surface closely resembles a sheet of paper tightly curled into > an S). I am attaching a screen shot for further clarification. My difficulty > arises in the initial inflation step, where during the inflation towards a > sphere, the tighter curve of the S folds onto itself. I am attaching an image > of this as well. The geometry of my surface doesn't seem amenable to > flattening with the intermediate spherical method. I would love to simply > take both ends and stretch it out. Are there alternative ways to the > flattening tutorial (or is there something I've missed) to obtain a flat > surface from my S-shaped surface? I would appreciate any help, suggestions, > and direction. Thank you very much. > > Alex > > -- > Alexander Artaki > Johns Hopkins University > Department of Neuroscience > Zanvyl-Kreiger Mind Brain Institute > > <side_profile.jpg><inflated.jpg>_______________________________________________ > caret-users mailing list > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users _______________________________________________ caret-users mailing list caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users
