Maverick/MultipleVolumesToVolume

Overview

Use this program to combine multiple volumes into a single volume.

This is useful for:

• Combining multiple slices from the visible man into a single volume
• Creating a single volume that contains different models such as the visible man and the pig

Background

In data used and produced by Maverick, it is important to realize that the data exists within space. For example, an image is not a matrix of pixels, but instead it is a collection of values recorded in space. As you step from one recorded value to the next, that new value comes from a different position in space. The matrix of values is laid out as a grid in space that has an origin, a spacing between grid points, and an orientation. The origin describes the location of the first measurement value in space. The orientation is a matrix that describes the directions in which the x, y, and z-axis extend from the origin. The spacing describes the distance magnitude between the measures along each oriented axis.

Given that Maverick data exists in space, it is possible to create an image that contains multiple objects, by loading those multiple objects into space, and then computing a regular sampling of that space and recording the results of that sampling as an image. This is what this program does.