[MINC-development] Welcome

[Jason Lerch]

> > 6. Given #3, block-structuring MINC data will improve file access speed.
> 
> ... for some access patterns.  It may degrade other access patterns,
> e.g. traditional voxel_loop processing.

I don't see why that has to be the case. voxel_loop by definition does
not care about neighbourhood information, so it should be perfectly
feasible to rewrite it to read the data block by block and loop
through the blocks, thereby making it's disk access as continuous - or
nearly as continuous - as before.

Jason