[Nipy-devel] ITK question

[Jarrod Millman]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Karl Young <Karl.Young@ucsf.edu> wrote:
> I've been casting about writing some scripts to automate some of the
> jobs that people do in our lab using ITK and it occurred to me to check
> in re. the latest thinking on the relationship between ITK and NiPy. I
> certainly understand the concerns about saddling potential users with
> such a monstrosity but on the other hand you get an awful lot (and maybe
> even a useful framework for "easily" adding new segmentation,
> registration,... tools). I was impressed with the Mayavi demos at SciPy
> 08 and recall that last year Prahbu and Gael were expressing similar
> concerns about VTK (i.e. saddling their users with the monstrosity of
> VTK) but seem pretty unconcerned about that now. So I was wondering if
> their experience had any effect on thinking about NiPy/ITK.

It is probably useful to use ITK, but I don't see any chance that NIPY
will depend on ITK.  Not unless we decided to go the Sage route, which
doesn't appeal to me personally.  My suggestion would be to just
include a couple of example scripts in the example directory of how to
use ITK and NIPY together.  That way NIPY doesn't depend on ITK, but
if you have it installed you can see how to use it with NIPY.

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