How to capture the view in volshow as an image?
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I have rendered a volume using volshow in viewer3d (shown below). I would like to save a capture of this view similarly to how I have taken a Windows screenshot below but without needing to use Windows screenshot so that I can automate my code to load in these volumes and output images of the desired view.
Print, saveas, and imsave do not seem to be working for this.
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Matt J
on 12 May 2023
I'm still interested as to whether or not there's a way to create an image in a figure of the current view so that you could utilize MATLAB's normal image saving options.
This example shows how to do so with getframe:
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Edmund Pickering
on 14 Sep 2023
Moved: Matt J
on 14 Sep 2023
I have this working with the following code.
% create viewer
viewer = viewer3d(BackgroundColor="white", GradientColor=[0.5 0.5 0.5],Lighting="on",BackgroundGradient="off");
% volshow
volBone = volshow(stack_(180:400,1:240,1179:1309)>250,'colormap',[214 184 150]/255,Parent=viewer);
% capture frame
frame = getframe(viewer.Parent);
If running in a loop, capturing succesive frames, I've found this helpful
viewer = viewer3d(...)
pause(5) % pause to give viewer time to fully open
for i = 1:...
viewer.clear % clear previous
pause(1) % pause to clear
volshow(...)
frame = getframe(viewer.Parent);
writeVideo(v,frame)
end
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