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of VTK-related packages in Debian and every major VTK release is shaking
the foundations of this world.

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

Rrrr, grrr, brrr. ;-)

> 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.

Well, social... I don't care much.

But it is really a technical issue. Virtually every application supports
it, whereas HDF5 is hardly on the list. NIfTI was intentionally based on
the stupid, ancient, confusing, suboptimal, trouble-making ANALYZE to
achieve this goal -- there is little chance for revolution, just for
evolution.

I'm not claiming that NIfTI is optimal (not at all actually, it inherts
some really stupid decisions from analyze, such as int16 headers fields
for the number of elements along each dimesion), but it does a great job
in improving interoperatability of neuro-apps -- and that is what really
helps in everyday-research-life.

Michael

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