AFNI Message Board

Dear AFNI users-

We are very pleased to announce that the new AFNI Message Board framework is up! Please join us at:

https://discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov

Existing user accounts have been migrated, so returning users can login by requesting a password reset. New users can create accounts, as well, through a standard account creation process. Please note that these setup emails might initially go to spam folders (esp. for NIH users!), so please check those locations in the beginning.

The current Message Board discussion threads have been migrated to the new framework. The current Message Board will remain visible, but read-only, for a little while.

Sincerely, AFNI HQ

History of AFNI updates  

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March 31, 2014 04:51PM
That's roughly right. RAI is AFNI's default coordinate order. You can change this with the AFNI_ORIENT environment variable if you like. What RAI means is with coordinates given as (x,y,z), x increases from Right to left, y increases from Anterior to posterior, z increases from Inferior to superior. For most standard spaces, this amounts to left and right being symmetrically around zero with right negative and left positive. To make this a little more confusing, this exact same order may be called LPI in other software packages if the packages determine order by the most positive dimension. The coordinates are presented in AFNI with left, right, anterior, posterior, inferior, superior shown in the coordinate/crosshair panel in the upper left part of the afni GUI.

Many published papers use LPI, and we provide the LPI order in our whereami reports. MNI and Talaiarach are "spaces", not coordinate orders, so locations within either can be expressed in any of the 27 potential variants of coordinate order, but RAI and LPI are typically the most commonly used. I hadn't looked at the Analyze order, but I found a document that shows what appears to me to be RAI, in our terminology.
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coordinate systems

mb March 31, 2014 04:33PM

Re: coordinate systems

Daniel Glen March 31, 2014 04:51PM

Re: coordinate systems

nick April 01, 2014 04:43AM

Re: coordinate systems

mb April 01, 2014 11:03AM

New coordinate order!

Daniel Glen April 01, 2014 01:39PM

Re: New coordinate order!

Peter Molfese April 01, 2014 01:57PM

Re: New coordinate order!

mb April 10, 2014 12:38PM

Re: New coordinate order!

rick reynolds April 10, 2014 02:37PM

Re: New coordinate order!

mb April 10, 2014 05:34PM