.TH mia\-3disosurface\-from\-stack 1 "v2.4.6"  "USER COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
('mia\\-3disosurface\\-from\\-stack',)
\- Extract an ist\-surface froma a 3D image.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B  mia\-3disosurface\-from\-stack \-i <in\-image> \-o <out\-mesh> [options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mia\-3disosurface\-from\-stack
This program is used to extract an iso-surface from the input gray scale image given as slices.
.SH OPTIONS
.SS File-IO
.RS
.IP "\-i \-\-in-image=(input, required); string"
input image filename pattern

.IP "\-o \-\-out-mesh=(output, required); string"
output mesh

.RE
.SS Help & Info
.RS
.IP "\-V \-\-verbose=warning"
verbosity of output, print messages of given level and higher priorities. Supported priorities starting at lowest level are:

.RS 10
.I
info
\(hy Low level messages
.RE
.RS 10
.I
trace
\(hy Function call trace
.RE
.RS 10
.I
fail
\(hy Report test failures
.RE
.RS 10
.I
warning
\(hy Warnings
.RE
.RS 10
.I
error
\(hy Report errors
.RE
.RS 10
.I
debug
\(hy Debug output
.RE
.RS 10
.I
message
\(hy Normal messages
.RE
.RS 10
.I
fatal
\(hy Report only fatal errors
.RE
.IP "   \-\-copyright"
print copyright information

.IP "\-h \-\-help"
print this help

.IP "\-? \-\-usage"
print a short help

.IP "   \-\-version"
print the version number and exit

.RE
.SS Image options
.RS
.IP "\-s \-\-iso-value=128"
iso\-value of iso surface to be extracted

.RE
.SS Mesh options
.RS
.IP "\-f \-\-max-faces=\-1"
maximum number of Faces,

.IP "\-e \-\-max-edges=\-1"
maximum number of Edges

.IP "\-c \-\-max-cost=0.1"
maximum cost for edge collaps

.IP "\-r \-\-ratio=4"
ratio of faces(edges) to target number, at which  the optimization changes from edge\-length to volume\-optimized

.IP "\-w \-\-reverse-winding"
reverse the winding of the triangles in order to make normals point away from the high intensity area

.RE
.SS Processing
.RS
.IP "   \-\-threads=\-1"
Maxiumum number of threads to use for processing,This number should be lower or equal to the number of logical processor cores in the machine. (\-1: automatic estimation).

.RE
.SH EXAMPLE
Extract the surface from an image set with numbers imageXXXX.png that corresponds to  the value 30 and stop optimizing when the mesh consists of less than 100000 triangles.
.HP
mia\-3disosurface\-from\-stack \-i image0000.png \-o mesh.vmesh \-s 30 \-f 100000
.SH AUTHOR(s)
Gert Wollny
.SH COPYRIGHT
This software is Copyright (c) 1999\(hy2015 Leipzig, Germany and Madrid, Spain.
It comes  with  ABSOLUTELY  NO WARRANTY  and  you  may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU 
GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (or later). For more 
information run the program with the option '\-\-copyright'.