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OK. I don't personally have time to do so, but writing a (basic) stl
output module for Cleaver would not be a huge time investment for a
developer. I don't believe any new data would need to be computed;
it's just writing the current data to a file differently.

If it's a one-off type thing, meshlab would be my recommendation to
Chris. There's a high likelihood it's more robust than us scraping
something together on short notice. Since I don't use stl frequently,
I'm not entirely well-versed any quirks in meshlab's interpretation of
the format. If Chris needs assistance using meshlab in the meantime
I'm willing to help.

If there's general use for this, maybe it should go on a feature
request? (printing 3d images sounds cool...) While meshlab has a
reasonable input format (nrrd), the output mesh formats are still a
little raw so entertaining suggestions might make sense.

Josh

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Elizabeth Jurrus <liz@sci.utah.edu> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> The stl files are for input to a 3d printer. I've cc'd Chris to see if
> there's another format he'd want to try. Otherwise, it doesn't sound too
> hard to add meshlab to the data processing pipeline.
>
> - liz
>
>
>
> On 04/09/2014 03:53 PM, Joshua Levine wrote:
>>
>> Hi Liz,
>>
>> At the moment, ply. It's not hard to convert using MeshLab, for example
>> (open, save as).
>>
>> Are stl files of general use to you? A lot of the meshing community
>> prefers indexed formats (ply, obj, etc.) because they are more compressed
>> and preserve mesh topology. Going to stl is a one way street---it can be
>> tricky to do stl->ply.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>> On Apr 9, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Elizabeth Jurrus <liz@sci.utah.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys...
>>>
>>> Can Cleaver output surface meshes in the STL file format?
>>>
>>> - liz
>
>

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• [Cleaver] STL format, Elizabeth Jurrus, 04/09/2014
  • Re: [Cleaver] STL format, Joshua Levine, 04/09/2014
    • Re: [Cleaver] STL format, Elizabeth Jurrus, 04/10/2014
      • Re: [Cleaver] STL format, Joshua Levine, 04/10/2014
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          • Re: [Cleaver] STL format, Joshua Levine, 04/10/2014

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