Hi Bruce and Doug,

Thanks so much for the advice.

I think I'll try to hack something together since I have to perform this
step for numerous subjects.

One quick question - is the order of the vertices preserved between the
pial curv and spherical curv ascii files?

Thanks again,

John

On 11/9/15 8:04 PM, "Bruce Fischl" <fis...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

>there used to be something built into tksurfer to do soap bubble
>smoothing. You can try smooth_vals_spare from the tcl prompt. I think it
>depends on setting the fixedval field in the vertex struct to 1 for the
>stationary points of the soap bubble.  You can first read in a file that
>is
>1 for the fixed points and zero elsewhere then call fix_nonzero_vals.
>Then
>load the vals you want and try the soap bubble. It's pretty old code and
>hasn't been used in ages though, so it is likely to have problems.
>
>I guess writing a stand-alone soap bubble would be pretty trivial, so if
>you find this doesn't work and this is important to you let us know and
>I'll add it to our to-do list.
>
>cheers
>Bruce
>
>
>On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Douglas N Greve
>wrote:
>
>>
>> Sounds like you are trying to do soap bubble interpolation (?). I don't
>> think we have a binary for that. Maybe Bruce knows of one. You could
>> hack something together, with smoothing (mri_surf2surf), creating binary
>> masks (mris_binarize), and masking (mri_mask), and basic math operations
>> (fscalc).
>>
>>
>> On 11/09/2015 02:07 PM, Gardus III, John D wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of mapping some non-FreeSurfer derived outcomes to
>>> a curv file containing the vertices of the pial surface mesh. I have
>>> values at roughly 100 vertices, leaving some 37000 with 'nan'.
>>>
>>> I then run an intra-subject surf2surf command in an attempt to
>>> interpolate between vertices for which I have values. The problem is
>>> that the NaNs pull the existing values down, resulting in a
>>> smearing/dilution of my outcomes.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to interpolate and make the intervening vertices
>>> purely a function of nearby vertices for which values exist?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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