---
name: "mia-meshdistance-to-stackmask"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mia-tools"
version: "2.4.7-11+b1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mia-meshdistance-to-stackmask"
---

# mia-meshdistance-to-stackmask(1)

Evaluate the distance between a binary shape given as reference and a mesh.

## NAME

mia-meshdistance-to-stackmask - Evaluate the distance between a binary shape given as reference and a mesh.

## SYNOPSIS

**mia-meshdistance-to-stackmask -i \<in-mesh\> -r \<ref-mask\> -o \<out-mesh\> \[options\]**

## DESCRIPTION

**mia-meshdistance-to-stackmask** This program takes a binary masks and a triangular mesh as input and evaluates the distance of the mesh vertices to the binary maskand stores the result in a new mesh.

## OPTIONS

- \-i --in-mesh=(input, required); io

  input mesh\
    For supported file types see PLUGINS:mesh/io

- \-r --ref-mask=(input, required); io

  reference binary mask\
    For supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io

- \-o --out-mesh=(required, output); io

  output mesh\
    For supported file types see PLUGINS:mesh/io

### Help & Info

- \-V --verbose=warning

  verbosity of output, print messages of given level and higher priorities. Supported priorities starting at lowest level are:

  *trace* ‐ Function call trace

  *debug* ‐ Debug output

  *info* ‐ Low level messages

  *message* ‐ Normal messages

  *warning* ‐ Warnings

  *fail* ‐ Report test failures

  *error* ‐ Report errors

  *fatal* ‐ Report only fatal errors

- \--copyright

  print copyright information

- \-h --help

  print this help

- \-? --usage

  print a short help

- \--version

  print the version number and exit

### Processing

- \--threads=-1

  Maxiumum number of threads to use for processing,This number should be lower or equal to the number of logical processor cores in the machine. (-1: automatic estimation).

## PLUGINS: 2dimage/io

- **bmp**

  BMP 2D-image input/output support. The plug-in supports reading and writing of binary images and 8-bit gray scale images. read-only support is provided for 4-bit gray scale images. The color table is ignored and the pixel values are taken as literal gray scale values.

Recognized file extensions:  .BMP, .bmp

Supported element types:

binary data, unsigned 8 bit

- **datapool**

  Virtual IO to and from the internal data pool

Recognized file extensions:  .@

- **dicom**

  2D image io for DICOM

Recognized file extensions:  .DCM, .dcm

Supported element types:

signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit

- **exr**

  a 2dimage io plugin for OpenEXR images

Recognized file extensions:  .EXR, .exr

Supported element types:

unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit

- **jpg**

  a 2dimage io plugin for jpeg gray scale images

Recognized file extensions:  .JPEG, .JPG, .jpeg, .jpg

Supported element types:

unsigned 8 bit

- **png**

  a 2dimage io plugin for png images

Recognized file extensions:  .PNG, .png

Supported element types:

binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit

- **raw**

  RAW 2D-image output support

Recognized file extensions:  .RAW, .raw

Supported element types:

binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit

- **tif**

  TIFF 2D-image input/output support

Recognized file extensions:  .TIF, .TIFF, .tif, .tiff

Supported element types:

binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit, unsigned 32 bit

- **vista**

  a 2dimage io plugin for vista images

Recognized file extensions:  .-, .V, .VISTA, .v, .vista

Supported element types:

binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit

## PLUGINS: mesh/io

- **datapool**

  Virtual IO to and from the internal data pool

Recognized file extensions:  .@

- **off**

  plugin to load/store some Geomview OFF files. Supported is only the ASCII format 3D meshes with normales and per-vertex RGB colors. Alpha values and texture coordinates, as well as per face properties are ignored. Polygons are read and triangulated.

Recognized file extensions:  .OFF, .off

- **ply**

  Ply triangle mesh input/output support

Recognized file extensions:  .PLY, .ply

- **stl**

  STL mesh io plugin

Recognized file extensions:  .STL, .stl

- **vista**

  Vista/Simbio triangle mesh input/output support

Recognized file extensions:  .-, .V, .VMESH, .v, .vmesh

- **vtk**

  A subset of VTK mesh in-and output: Triangle meshes are written, and triangle meshes and triangle strips are read. Additional per-vertex attributes are supported: 'normals', 'colors' for three component colors, and 'scale' for a scalar value attached to each vertex. The data is written by the vtkPolyDataWriter in binary format.

Recognized file extensions:  .VTK, .VTKMESH, .vtk, .vtkmesh

## EXAMPLE

Evaluate the distance of the mask given in the images maskXXXX.png to the mesh given in mesh.v and save the result to mesh-dist.v

mia-meshdistance-to-stackmask -i mesh.v -r maskXXXX.png -o mesh-dist.v

## AUTHOR(s)

Gert Wollny

## COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 1999‐2015 Leipzig, Germany and Madrid, Spain. It comes  with  ABSOLUTELY  NO WARRANTY  and  you  may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU  GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (or later). For more  information run the program with the option '--copyright'.