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<span id="intro"></span><h1>What is PySurfer?<a class="headerlink" href="#what-is-pysurfer" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>PySurfer is a Python library and application for visualizing brain imaging
data. It is specifically useful for plotting data on a three-dimensional mesh
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<p>PySurfer uses an explicit model of cortical geometry to generate
highly-accurate images of neuroimaging data. This is preferable to other
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underlying topology of the cortex is a two-dimensional sheet. PySurfer can
read cortical models that have been processed using <a class="reference external" href="http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu">Freesurfer</a> to “inflate”
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