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Dotprops

Dotprops are point clouds used in NBLAST and related calculations.

Parent schemas

Schema metadata

Required schema metadata

These metadata MUST exist at the schema level.

neighborhood_size

  • encoding: ASCII base-10 unsigned integer

How many nearest neighbors were used to calculate the tangent vector (referred to as k in literature).

Optional schema metadata

These metadata MAY exist at the schema level.

  • None

Fields

These fields are defined in addition to those defined by any parent classes.

Required fields

These fields MUST exist in the file.

tangent_x, tangent_y, tangent_z

  • data type: float64
  • nullable: no

The normalised tangent vector of the neighborhood around the point in 3D, in the units given in the schema metadata.

Optional fields

These fields MAY exist in the file.

colinearity

  • data type: float64
  • nullable: no

A value between 0 and 1 representing how colinear the points in the neighborhood are (referred to as α / alpha in literature).