[Pkg-exppsy-pynifti] [Nipy-devel] Image, design, usecases

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:59:08PM -0700, Matthew Brett wrote:
> Well, for now, I think we wanted to go for an object that encapsulates
> a regularly sample data block that is at least 3D.  That seemed like a
> modest but useful start.  We could go on to try and deal with meshes
> and so on, but that could be another class or class hierarchy.


Why is the neuroimaging community feeling it has to reinvent what the CFD
community invented? I really amazes me. If we need VTK data structures,
why don't we just go ahead and use them?

Pff, moan, rant, puf, puf puf. :)

Gaël

PS: And yeah, why nifti? I like HDF5 :P
PPS: I am only half serious. I know the socialogical reasons. But from a
technical point of view, it dismays me.