Additional option for flipping the Z axis

Author: James Anderson

CreateRenderingFigure.m

@@ -1,16 +1,30 @@
 function [ hFig, hAxes ] = CreateRenderingFigure(varargin)
 %CREATERENDERINGFIGURE Create the figure used to render meshes
+    %WindowSize - Size of window, tuple
+    %Renderer   - Renderer to use, string
+    %ReverseZ   - bool, if true reverse the Z-axis
 
     WindowSize = [0 0 1024 768];
     renderer = 'opengl';
+    ZDir = 'normal';
+    light_elevation = 30;
 
     optargin = size(varargin,2);
-    if(optargin == 1)
+    if(optargin >= 1)
         WindowSize = varargin{1}; 
-    elseif(optargin == 2)
-        WindowSize = varargin{1};
+    end
+    if(optargin >= 2)
         renderer = varargin{2};
     end
+    if(optargin >= 3)
+        ReverseZ = varargin{3};
+        if(ReverseZ)
+            ZDir = 'reverse';
+            light_elevation = -light_elevation;
+        end
+    end
+    
+    
 
     hFig = figure('Units', 'Pixels', ...
         'OuterPosition', WindowSize, ...
@@ -23,12 +37,14 @@
                   'YColor', [.5 .5 .5], ... 
                   'ZColor', [.5 .5 .5], ...
                   'Position', [0 0 1 1], ...
-                  'DataAspectRatio', [1 1 1]);    
+                  'DataAspectRatio', [1 1 1], ...
+                  'ZDir', ZDir);    
 
     hold on; 
 
-    lightangle(45,30);
-    lightangle(225,30);
+    
+    lightangle(45,light_elevation);
+    lightangle(225,light_elevation);
 
 end
 

PPlot2.m

@@ -152,12 +152,7 @@ function PPlot2(Structs, Locs, LocLinks, scale_struct, VolumeName, varargin)
 %     scale_struct.X.Value = .001; 
 %     scale_struct.Y.Value = .001; 
 %     scale_struct.Z.Value = .045; 
-    
-    
-    if InvertZ
-        scale_struct.Z.Value = scale_struct.Z.Value * -1;
-    end
-  
+     
     %Scale the coordinates, keeps a copy of the original data
     if(~isnan(MinZ))
         MinZ = scale_struct.Z.Value * MinZ;
@@ -167,6 +162,12 @@ function PPlot2(Structs, Locs, LocLinks, scale_struct, VolumeName, varargin)
         MaxZ = scale_struct.Z.Value * MaxZ;
     end
 
+    if(MinZ > MaxZ)
+        temp = MinZ;
+        MinZ = MaxZ;
+        MaxZ = temp;
+    end
+    
     Locs = ScaleLocations(Locs, scale_struct);
 
     for(iStruct = 1:numStructs)
@@ -685,7 +686,7 @@ function PPlot2(Structs, Locs, LocLinks, scale_struct, VolumeName, varargin)
     end
 
     disp('Creating figure...'); 
-    [hFig, hAxes] = CreateRenderingFigure();
+    [hFig, hAxes] = CreateRenderingFigure(WindowSize, renderer, InvertZ);
 
 % 
 %     hFig = figure('Units', 'Pixels', ...
@@ -701,11 +702,6 @@ function PPlot2(Structs, Locs, LocLinks, scale_struct, VolumeName, varargin)
 %                   'Position', [0 0 1 1], ...
 %                   'DataAspectRatio', [1 1 1]);    
 
-    hold on; 
-
-    lightangle(45,30);
-    lightangle(225,30);
-
     disp('Rendering structures...'); 
     SceneBox = [];
     for iPID = 1:length(StructureIDs)
@@ -759,9 +755,9 @@ function PPlot2(Structs, Locs, LocLinks, scale_struct, VolumeName, varargin)
 %                            'String', 'Y');
 %     set(get(gca,'ZLabel'), 'Color', [0.5 0.5 0.5], ...
 %                            'String', 'IPL Depth (nm)'); 
-    set(gca, 'YTick', []); 
-    camroll(180);
-    
+%     set(gca, 'YTick', []); 
+    %camroll(180);
+      
 %    title('Laminae of Inner Nuclear Layer Cells'); 
 %     
 

VikingPlot.m

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 function VikingPlot( varargin ) 
 
     disp('');
-    disp('Version: 1.0.2019.04.09');
+    disp('Version: 1.0.2019.04.23');
     disp('');
 
     dbstop if error
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function VikingPlot( varargin )
     ColladaPath = []; %The path to write .dae files to, if not specified .dae files are not written
     Query = {};
     IDFileNames = {};
-    InvertZ = false;
+    InvertZ = true;
     MinZ = NaN;
     MaxZ = NaN;
 
@@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ function VikingPlot( varargin )
               ColladaPath = varargin{iArg+1}; 
               SkipNextArgument = true; 
            elseif(strcmpi(varargin{iArg},'-z'))
-              InvertZ = true;
+              InvertZ = false;
            elseif(strcmpi(varargin{iArg},'-InvertZ'))
-              InvertZ = true;
+              InvertZ = false;
            elseif(strcmpi(varargin{iArg},'-MinZ') )
               MinZ = str2num(varargin{iArg+1});
               SkipNextArgument = true; 

VikingPlot.prj

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 <deployment-project plugin="plugin.ezdeploy" plugin-version="1.0">
-  <configuration build-checksum="3996273110" file="C:\src\git\VikingPlot\VikingPlot.prj" location="C:\src\git\VikingPlot" name="VikingPlot" preferred-package-location="C:\src\git\VikingPlot\VikingPlot\for_redistribution" preferred-package-type="package.type.exe" target="target.ezdeploy.standalone" target-name="Application Compiler">
+  <configuration build-checksum="2565003330" file="C:\src\git\VikingPlot\VikingPlot.prj" location="C:\src\git\VikingPlot" name="VikingPlot" preferred-package-location="C:\src\git\VikingPlot\VikingPlot\for_redistribution" preferred-package-type="package.type.exe" target="target.ezdeploy.standalone" target-name="Application Compiler">
     <param.appname>VikingPlot</param.appname>
     <param.icon />
     <param.icons />
-    <param.version>1.07</param.version>
+    <param.version>1.09</param.version>
     <param.authnamewatermark>James Anderson</param.authnamewatermark>
     <param.email>james.r.anderson@utah.edu</param.email>
     <param.company>University of Utah</param.company>
     <param.summary>VikingPlot creates 3D renderings of cells for the Viking Annotation system</param.summary>
     <param.description />
     <param.screenshot>${PROJECT_ROOT}\VikingPlotThumbnail.png</param.screenshot>
     <param.guid />
-    <param.installpath.string>VikingPlot-1.03.2016.09.23</param.installpath.string>
+    <param.installpath.string>VikingPlot-1.03.2019.04.09</param.installpath.string>
     <param.installpath.combo>option.installpath.programfiles</param.installpath.combo>
     <param.logo />
     <param.install.notes />
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
     <unset>
       <param.icon />
       <param.icons />
+      <param.authnamewatermark />
+      <param.email />
+      <param.company />
       <param.description />
       <param.guid />
       <param.installpath.combo />