Always retain full plate of right pane when zooming-in on left pane

[joshusama]

What's the problem this feature will solve?
The ability to retain full anatomical context in right pane, regardless of how much one zooms in on the drawing (left) pane

Describe the solution you'd like
Zoom in on left as usual but without cropping in the right. Instead, perhaps add a thin bounding box to indicate level of zoom being applied.

If I zoom in super far to create an ROI, I want to know precisely where I am in the bigger picture. Zoom in too far now and the right pane shrinks to nothing, essentially.

Alternative Solutions
No solution currently exists

HIGH PRIORITY

[jcfr]

Possible approach:

• Have two slicer viewers
• Slicer Viewer 1 is visible on the left and allow to "zoom"
• Slicer Viewer 2 is not directly visible to the user but corresponding "uncropped" is shown in 3D
• All info (expect field of view) would be synced between the hidden and visible viewer.
  • This can easily be done leveraging the "linking" feature that already allow to configure programmatically which properties are propagated to other viewer
• thin bounding box to indicate level of zoom being applied:
  • add custom annotation (or simply a VTK actor) showing the bounding box overlaid in 3D
  • or display intersection of a bounding box vtkMRMLModelNode that would be associated with the visible viewer in the 3D view

[joshusama]

Interesting, that might work.  Perhaps a mockup at some point would help solidify what I am imaging this would look like. On Thursday, June 11, 2020, 8:30:30 AM PDT, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <notifications@github.com> wrote: Possible approach: - Have two slicer viewers - Slicer Viewer 1 is visible on the left and allow to "zoom" - Slicer Viewer 2 is not directly visible to the user but corresponding "uncropped" is shown in 3D - All info (expect field of view) would be synced between the hidden and visible viewer. - This can easily be done leveraging the "linking" feature that already allow to configure programmatically which properties are propagated to other viewer - thin bounding box to indicate level of zoom being applied: - add custom annotation (or simply a VTK actor) showing the bounding box overlaid in 3D - or display intersection of a bounding box vtkMRMLModelNode that would be associated with the visible viewer in the 3D view — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[jcfr]

Perhaps a mockup at some point would help solidify what I am imaging this would look like.

That would be great 👍 A picture of a whiteboard drawing would work.