[MINC-development] Welcome

[Andrew Janke]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Jason Lerch wrote:

> > ... 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.

If we really are going to get technical and change to HDF, why not just do it in
the way the volume_io was originally intended to.  ie: support both.

You'll note that volume_io's code has been written such that it doesn not
require minc, in theory it could support many file formats.


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