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I believe I've gotten to the bottom of this, and the problem is incorrect documentation, both in the read/write_annotation.m files and in the wiki. Taking the FreeSurfer C source as the de facto specification, we can refer to the colortab.c file. Here, the labels are not constructed or decoded using the transparency (255 - alpha) information at all, but are simply (R + G << 8 + B << 16). For more complete discussion, see: https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/issues/649#issuecomment-424755969 I think the most parsimonious resolution of this confusion is simply to update the documentation on the wiki page (I cannot; someone with permissions will need to), and to patch the MATLAB code to build its labels from RGB values alone. I will submit a patch to the GitHub branch. Please let me know if I've gotten something wrong. Best, Chris Markiewicz ________________________________ From: freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of paul mccarthy <pauldmccar...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 11:39:53 AM To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: [Freesurfer] Clarification about .annot file format External Email - Use Caution Howdy, There is a discussion regarding the .annot file format over at the nibabel github repository, regarding the interpretation of the flag/alpha value: https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/issues/649 If one wishes to create an .annot file with colours that have a transparency value, how should it be stored in the file? By piecing together the information from the freesurfer code [1,2], and Graham Wideman's helpful notes [3], I came to the conclusion that alpha values should be stored as 1-the actual value. But it would be great to get some clarification on this from somebody who knows more than me Thanks very much, Paul McCarthy [1] https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer/blob/dev/matlab/read_annotation.m [2] https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer/blob/dev/matlab/write_annotation.m [3] https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/LabelsClutsAnnotationFiles#Annotation
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