[VoxBo] Voxbo 1.8.4: does vbview accurately provide functionality of old voxel surfer?

[Jarrod Lewis-Peacock]

Thanks again for your quick and thorough response Dan. Looks like we'll use
the 1.8.4 release. Good luck pushing the new vbview to its next release
point.

Jarrod

On 8/27/07, Daniel Y Kimberg <kimberg at mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> Jarrod Lewis-Peacock wrote:
> > Does the 1.8.4 release of VoxBo have a vbview application that works
> > well?  e.g. provides all the voxel time series analysis tools that
> > the old voxel viewer (voxel surfer) does? I've read through the
> > release notes and it looks like vbview is working fine, and just
> > wanted to double check with you guys.
>
> vbview is missing some features of the old IDL-based voxel surfer, and
> it also has some new features that the voxel surfer lacked.  So you
> might want to ask about any specific features you need.  There are
> also some command line tools for things like generating stat maps
> (vbstatmap), extracting ROI stats (vbdumpstats), and extracting time
> series (vbxts) that are missing from vbview but probably easier to do
> at the command line in many cases, rather than using either graphical
> interface.
>
> > I'm trying to install Voxbo for one of our lab members who wants to
> > be able to use the capabilities of the old voxel surfer. I'd like to
> > install the newest version of voxbo if possible, or if the voxel
> > surfer features aren't fully supported yet, we'll try to install an
> > older version of voxbo that has the vv utility.
>
> We haven't yet retired vv, for just this reason.  So if you download
> 1.8.4, you get both.  We'll continue to distribute vv for the
> foreseeable future, because so many people are comfortable with it,
> even though we're not actively maintaining it.  I believe there is
> also a version of vbview on the ftp site in the linux-bleeding
> directory, that fixes a few issues.
>
> I've been promising a new version of vbview for a long time now, and
> I've made progress rewriting some of the guts of the code, but other
> things keep getting in the way.
>
> dan
>
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