Forwarding this to the dev support email list. Thanks Allen for the feedback. @Alan please find useful comments for Studio interface below. Could you also point Allen to the branch where studio can load meshes? studio_mesh?

Shireen


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From: Allen Sanderson <allen@sci.utah.edu>

Subject: Suggestions

Date: October 27, 2020 at 3:01:48 PM MDT

To: shapeworks-dev@sci.utah.edu

Hi,

I am back working with the latest versions and have some suggestions for the SWStudio UI.

The orientation cube is very helpful. Except not all data is medical data. As such, the L/R S/I P/A does not make sense for those cases. In the Preferences it would be nice to have three options, Axis: “None” “Triad” and “Cube.”  The triad would have XYZ along each axis. It would even be nice to be able to locate it to any of the four corners.

When running a python script to launchShapeWorksStudio the parameterDictionary used to runShapeWorksOptimize should optionally be passed in as well so that the optimize values are populated for the Particle System Parameters. This way if one saves the Project the optimize values are saved as well. 

When working with meshes I get the following error:

ERROR: Error during mesh construction:

Exception: /Projects/ShapeWorks/ShapeWorks/dependencies/install/include/ITK-5.0/itkImageFileReader.hxx:136:

 Could not create IO object for reading file /Projects/Data/Sandia/SurfaceOnlyTest/example1_srf_only_00.triangles.ply

  Tried to create one of the following:

    BMPImageIO

    BioRadImageIO

    Bruker2dseqImageIO

    GDCMImageIO

    GE4ImageIO

    GE5ImageIO

    GiplImageIO

    HDF5ImageIO

    JPEGImageIO

    JPEG2000ImageIO

    LSMImageIO

    MINCImageIO

    MRCImageIO

    MetaImageIO

    NiftiImageIO

    NrrdImageIO

    PNGImageIO

    StimulateImageIO

    TIFFImageIO

    VTKImageIO

  You probably failed to set a file suffix, or

    set the suffix to an unsupported type.

Further messages will be suppressed

I am assuming the SWStudio is not quite fully functional with meshes.

The Optimize UI could use some sprucing up using Group Box with Check Box.

See the bottom two group box examples in the first image:  https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-groupbox-example.html

It would be nice to be able to set all of the optimization parameters in the UI:

recompute_regularization_interval

save splits

checkpointing

etc.

Also all of the inputs need to have tooltips. 

I noticed that the documentation (http://sciinstitute.github.io/ShapeWorks/workflow/optimize.html) has incorporated the inter- an intra- nomenclature. This addition is very helpful (at least for me). And the overall improvements are very helpful.

Cheers,

Allen

Allen Sanderson

SCI Institute

University of Utah