Graham, hello:
Fiducial:
1- taken as standard of reference (from Webster's)
2- name for surfaces that approximate layer 4(i think) of the gray matter (my understanding of SureFit's nomenclature)
Run the examples in MakeColorMap -help, they should clarify the meaning of the term. Say you want 256 colors to go from red to green to yellow (these three colors are your fiducial colors) and MakeColorMap would interpolate between them to give you the remaining 253 colors.
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