.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_surface_analyses:

Surface Analysis Examples
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Examples demonstrating operations and analyses done on brain surfaces.




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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Creating a flatmap from a folded cortical surface always introduces some distortion. This is si...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_surface_analyses_plot_tissots_indicatrix.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Tissot's Indicatrix</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This will plot a geodesic path between two vertices on the cortical surface. This path is based...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_surface_analyses_plot_geodesic_path.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plotting Geodesic Paths</div>
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_surface_analyses_plot_geodesic_distance.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plotting Geodesic Distances</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Creating a flatmap from a folded cortical surface always introduces some distortion. This is si...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_surface_analyses_plot_flatmap_distortion.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Flatmap Distortion</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Subsurfaces can be used for efficient operations on subsets of cortical surface">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_surface_analyses_plot_subsurfaces.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot and Use Subsurface Tools</div>
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_surface_analyses_plot_interpolate_data.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Interpolate Data</div>
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.. toctree::
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   /auto_examples/surface_analyses/plot_tissots_indicatrix
   /auto_examples/surface_analyses/plot_geodesic_path
   /auto_examples/surface_analyses/plot_geodesic_distance
   /auto_examples/surface_analyses/plot_flatmap_distortion
   /auto_examples/surface_analyses/plot_subsurfaces
   /auto_examples/surface_analyses/plot_interpolate_data