Flooding brains - Mesmerizing & relaxing volumetric brain animations.

Project info

Title: Flooding brains: Mesmerizing & relaxing volumetric brain animations.

Project lead: @ofgulban - Omer Faruk Gulban

Description: After :fireworks: exploding brains :fireworks: in the last year's brainhack, now it is time for animations of a more relaxing sort. I will be mainly using a few LayNii programs that I have been developing for high resolution imaging over the last year (e.g. layers, columns) to generate mesmerizing brain animations. I will focus on using animal brains from one of my favorite projects: https://braincatalogue.org/. I already have a few exotic brains segmented and animated using triangular meshes:

Dophin brain :dolphin:
Giraffe brain :giraffe:
Okapi brain :zebra: :giraffe:
Rhinoceros brain :rhinoceros:

However, in this project, the focus will be on generating 3D volumetric renders directly using nifti images, rather than using triangular meshes. For this, I will be using the excellent PyVista.

Link to project: https://github.com/ofgulban/flooding_brains

Mattermost handle: ofgulban, hbmhack-flooding_brains

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack:

Flood animal brains.
Flood human brains
More brains?
Create different compositions/shots/scenes.
[Stretch goal] Add sound effects.

Good first issues:

Install the dependencies and try following the guide section here.
Create flooding animations with your own data. I will work on making this process smoother during the event.

Skills:

Python
C++ (not crucial)
ffmpeg (not crucial)
I am looking for someone who has some sound processing skills. It would be cool to add funky sounds to the animations.

Chat channel: https://mattermost.brainhack.org/brainhack/channels/hbmhack-flooding_brains

Image for the OHBM brainhack website movie-okapi_white

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