#introduction post!
I'm Dan - I started building interactive 3D tools for #neuroscience this year. So far, I've built a neuropixels planning tool https://github.com/VirtualBrainLab/Pinpoint and a python API for rendering exploratory data visualizations that involve the mouse brain https://github.com/VirtualBrainLab/Urchin. Currently a postdoc @ UW
Get in touch if you think about science data visualization, I'm looking for ideas for the next great tool to contribute to or start building!
@danbirman Hi! I work in image registration, and I’ve always struggled to visualize the deformations that my code produces. Grid lines work for 2-D slices, but I’m on the lookout for a technique to render the 3-D map nicely.
@hgreer I'm swamped w/ sfn prep this week, but I'd be happy to explore this later in november!
@danbirman We'll get back to it after the CVPR submission deadline and sfn are over
@hgreer We're using VTK and ITK for transforms in our tools, as an example I've got deformations from registering individual mouse MRIs to a template and then we render those in 3D space by deforming the mouse brain 3D models we have according to the new vertex positions. You can kind of see it in the attached picture (for an affine transform). I imagine we could distribute points in 3D space and move them (maybe colored by how much they move) and get an interpretable 3D view of the transform?