5.3. List of all AFNI environment variables¶
5.3.1. Overview¶
You can set Unix environment variables to control AFNI behavior and
defaults on your system. These allow you, Dear User, to set things
like: crosshair colors; default colorbars; colormap ranges; left=left
or left=right behavior in image panels; having labels appear; image
background color; 1dplot characteristics; “locking” behaviors in the
GUI; text editor for viewing help files with -hview (like emacs!);
global dset and atlas paths; and sooo maaaany mooore.
These settings can be managed in several ways– for example, using
setenv in tcsh or export in bash. Probably the
easiest+best way to go would be to define a file called
~/.afnirc (i.e., a file in your computer’s home directory called
“.afnirc”– note the dot) and store your variable definitions and
settings there. In fact, as part of your installation instructions,
you should have already created this file (in fact, one for each of
afni and suma; we just present the options for the former
here). If you don’t, you should check the setup instructions for
quickly doing this.
5.3.2. Intro: Unix env vars used by AFNI¶
The AFNI program allows you to use several Unix environment variables to influence its behavior. The mechanics of setting an environment variable depend on which shell you are using. To set an environment variable named “FRED” to the string “Elvis”:
csh or tcsh: setenv FRED Elvis
bash or ksh: FRED=Elvis ; export FRED
Normally, these commands would go in your .cshrc or .profile files, so that they would be invoked when you login. If in doubt, consult your local Unix guru. If you don’t have one, well….
You don’t NEED to set any of these variables – AFNI will still work correctly. But they are an easy way to set up certain defaults to make AFNI a little easier on your neocortex and hippocampus.
Note
Changes to environment variables AFTER you start a program will not be seen by that program, since each running program gets a private copy of the entire set of environment variables when it starts. This is a standard Unix feature, and is not specific to AFNI. Some variables can be set internally in AFNI using the “Edit Environment” control from the “Datamode->Misc” menu or from the image window Button-3 popup menu. Such variables are marked with “(editable)” in the descriptions below.
Note
Some variables below are described as being of “YES/NO” type. This means that they should either be set to the value “YES” or to the value “NO”.
Note
You can now set environment variables on the ‘afni’ command line; for example: afni -DAFNI_SESSTRAIL=3 -DAFNI_FUNC_ALPHA=YES This may be useful for a ‘one time’ situation, or as an alias. You can also use this ‘-Dname=val’ option in 1dplot and 3dDeconvolve. [RWCox: 22 Mar 2005] And now you can use this feature on most program command lines. [RWCox: 13 Dec 2007]
Note
At the end of this file is a list of several environment variables that affect the program 3dDeconvolve, rather than the interactive AFNI program itself.
Note
If you set an AFNI environment variable on the command line, or in a shell startup file (e.g., ~/.cshrc), and also have that variable in your ~/.afnirc file, you will get a warning telling you that the value in the ~/.afnirc file is being ignored. To turn off these warnings, set environment variable AFNI_ENVIRON_WARNINGS to NO.
Note
You can allow the .afnirc file to re-set existing environment variables by setting environment variable AFNI_ENVIRON_RESET to YES.
5.3.3. Setting env variables in file ~/.afnirc¶
As of June, 1999, you can now set environment variables for an interactive AFNI run in the setup (~/.afnirc) file. This is provided as a convenience. An example:
***ENVIRONMENT
AFNI_HINTS = YES
AFNI_SESSTRAIL = 3
Note that the spaces around the “=” sign are required. See README.setup for more information about the possible contents of .afnirc besides the environment variables.
A few other programs in the AFNI package also read the ***ENVIRONMENT section of the .afnirc file. This is needed so that environment settings that affect those programs (e.g., AFNI_COMPRESSOR for auto-compression of output datasets) can be properly initialized in .afnirc.
At the same time, the routine in AFNI that initializes certain internal constants from X11 resources (usually in your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file, and described in file AFNI.Xdefaults) has been modified to also allow the same constants to be set from Unix environment variables. For example, the gap (in pixels) between sub-graphs is set by the X11 resource “AFNI*graph_ggap”, and can now be set by the environment variables “AFNI_graph_ggap” or “AFNI_GRAPH_GGAP”, as in:
AFNI_graph_ggap = 6 // this is a comment
If an X11 resource is actually set, it will take priority over the environment variable. Some of the variables that can be set in this way are:
AFNI_ncolors = number of gray levels to use
AFNI_gamma = gamma correction for image intensities
AFNI_graph_boxes_thick = 0=thin lines, 1=thick lines, for graph boxes
AFNI_graph_grid_thick = ditto for the graph vertical grid lines
AFNI_graph_data_thick = ditto for the data graphs
AFNI_graph_ideal_thick = ditto for the ideal graphs
AFNI_graph_ort_thick = ditto for the ort graphs
AFNI_graph_dplot_thick = ditto for the dplot graphs
AFNI_graph_ggap = initial spacing between graph boxes
AFNI_graph_matrix = initial number of sub-graphs
AFNI_fim_polort = polynomial detrending order for FIM
AFNI_fim_ignore = how many pts to ignore at start when doing FIM
AFNI_montage_periodic = True allows periodic montage wraparound
AFNI_purge = True allows automatic dataset memory purge
AFNI_resam_vox = dimension of voxel (mm) for resampled datasets
AFNI_resam_anat = One of NN, Li, Cu, Bk for Anat resampling mode
AFNI_resam_func = ditto for Func resampling mode
AFNI_resam_thr = ditto for Threshold resampling mode
AFNI_pbar_posfunc = True will start color pbar as all positive
AFNI_pbar_sgn_pane_count = # of panes to start signed color pbar with
AFNI_pbar_pos_pane_count = # of panes to start positive color pbar with
Some other such variables are described in file AFNI.Xdefaults. Note that values that actually affect the way the X11/Motif interface appears, such as AFNI*troughColor, must be set via the X11 mechanism and cannot be set using Unix environment variables. This is because they are interpreted by the Motif graphics library when it starts and not by any actual AFNI code.
The following example is from my own .afnirc file on the Linux system on which I do most of the AFNI development. The first ones (in lower case) are described in AFNI.Xdefaults. The later ones (all upper case) are documented in this file. (You can tell from this file that I like to have things line up. You would never be able to tell this from the piles of paper in my office, though.) And the file is:
***ENVIRONMENT
AFNI_ncolors = 60 // number of gray levels
AFNI_gamma = 1.5 // adjust for proper display
AFNI_purge = True // purge datasets from memory when not used
AFNI_chooser_doubleclick = Apply // like Apply button; could also be Set
AFNI_chooser_listmax = 25 // max nonscrolling items in chooser lists
AFNI_graph_width = 512 // initial width of graph window (pixels)
AFNI_graph_height = 384 // initial height of graph window
AFNI_graph_data_thick = 1 // graph time series with thick lines
AFNI_fim_ignore = 2 // default value for FIM ignore
AFNI_graph_ggap = 7 // gap between sub-graphs (pixels)
AFNI_pbar_hide = True // hide color pbar when it changes size
AFNI_hotcolor = Violet // color to use on Done and Set buttons
AFNI_SESSTRAIL = 2 // see below for these ...
AFNI_RENDER_ANGLE_DELTA = 4.0 // |
AFNI_RENDER_CUTOUT_DELTA = 4.0 // |
AFNI_FIM_BKTHR = 25.0 // |
AFNI_SPLASHTIME = 3.0 // v
5.3.4. Env vars: the looong list¶
AFNI_MESSAGE_PREFIX
Most AFNI programs output various messages prefixed by '++', '**', and divers variations. If you are running several programs at once, you can prepend a string to these prefixes to distinguish them in the output terminal stream. For example, a csh script might look like so: foreach fred ( 1 2 3 4 ) setenv AFNI_MESSAGE_PREFIX case$fred run_some_program -option $fred ... |& tee out${fred}.txt & end wait
AFNI_MESSAGE_COLORIZE [22 Feb 2016]
When AFNI programs print WARNING or ERROR messages, they normally print the 'WARNING' or 'ERROR' label using inverted colors, to aid in picking out these messages from other text on the screen. To turn this feature off, set this environment variable to 'NO'.
AFNI_FONTSIZE [06 Nov 2018]
This variable can be used to set the AFNI controller font sizes. It is a convenient way to avoid using the '-XXXfontsize' option. The values this variable can take are: MINUS ==> smaller than normal fonts PLUS ==> larger than normal fonts BIG ==> much larger than normal fonts
AFNI_DONT_SORT_ENVIRONMENT
If this YES/NO variable is YES, then the Edit Environment controls will NOT be sorted alphabetically. The default action is to sort them alphabetically. If they are unsorted, the editable environment variables will appear in the control panel in the order in which they were added to the code (that is, in an order that makes no real sense).
AFNI_ORIENT (editable)
This is a string used to control the display of coordinates in the AFNI main control window. The string must be 3 letters, one each from the pairs {R,L} {A,P} {I,S}. The first letter in the string gives the orientation of the x-axis, the second the orientation of the y-axis, the third the z-axis: R = right-to-left L = left-to-right A = anterior-to-posterior P = posterior-to-anterior I = inferior-to-superior S = superior-to-inferior If AFNI_ORIENT is undefined, the default is RAI. This is the order used by DICOM, and means the -x axis is Right, the +x axis is Left, the -y axis is Anterior, the +y axis is Posterior, the -z axis is Inferior, the +z axis is Superior. As a special case, using the code 'flipped' is equivalent to 'LPI', which is the orientation used in many neuroscience journals. This variable is also recognized by program 3dclust, which will report the cluster coordinates in the (x,y,z) order given by AFNI_ORIENT. Both AFNI and 3dclust also recognize the command line switch "-orient string", where string is a 3 letter code that can be used to override the value of AFNI_ORIENT. The plugin "Coord Order" (plug_coord.c) allows you to interactively change the orientation of the variable display within AFNI.
AFNI_PLUGINPATH
This variable should be the directory in which AFNI should search for plugins, executable files, atlases, templates and atlas definition files. See the atlas environment variable section below for more details. If there is more than one appropriate directory, they can be separated by colons, as in setenv AFNI_PLUGINPATH /directory/one:/directory/two If this variable is not set, then AFNI will use the PATH variable instead. This will waste time, since most directories in the PATH will not have plugins. On some systems, using the PATH has been known to cause problems when AFNI starts. I believe this is due to bugs in the system library routines (e.g., dlopen) used to manage dynamically loaded shared objects. Take care to remove any slow or non-existent directories from the PATH because these problems will cause searches to fail or become excessively slow.
AFNI_NOPLUGINS
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then AFNI will not try to read plugins when it starts up. The command line switch "-noplugins" will have the same effect.
AFNI_ALLOW_ALL_PLUGINS
Setting this variable to YES will allow all defined plugins to be loaded. Otherwise, little-used plugins must be allowed one at a time, using the next set of variable names.
AFNI_ALLOW_somename_PLUGIN
Some plugins distributed with AFNI are not commonly used, and are disabled by default. If you wish to turn one of these plugins back on, set the corresponding environment variable to YES. The list of these plugins is: --- somename --- --- name in menu --- 2DREGISTRATION 2D Registration 3DCLUSTER 3D Cluster 3DCORRELATION 3D Correlation 3DDUMP98 3D Dump98 3DEDIT 3D Edit 3DEXTRACT 3D+t Extract 3DREGISTRATION 3D Registration 3DSTATISTIC 3D+t Statistic 4DDUMP 4D Dump ASL ASL a3/d3 BRIKCOMPRESSOR BRIK Compressor COORDORDER Coord Order DATASETCOPY Dataset Copy DATASETDUP Dataset Dup DATASETRENAME Dataset Rename DECONVOLVE Deconvolution DSETZEROPAD Dset Zeropad FOURIER Fourier GYRUSFINDER Gyrus Finder HEMISUBTRACT Hemi-subtract HILBERTDELAY98 Hilbert Delay98 HISTOGRAMBFIT Histogram: BFit L1FIT L1_Fit & Dtr L2FIT LSqFit & Dtr MASKCALC maskcalc PERMUTATIONTEST Permutation Test POWERSPECTRUM Power Spectrum REORDER Reorder RETROICOR RETROICOR ROIAVERAGE ROI Average ROIPLOT ROI Plot SINGLETRIALAVG SingleTrial Avg THRESHOLD Threshold TSGENERATE TS Generate WAVELETS Wavelets
AFNI_YESPLUGOUTS
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then AFNI will try to listen for plugouts when it starts. The command line switch "-yesplugouts" will have the same effect. (Plugouts are an experimental feature that allow external programs to exchange data with AFNI.) It is now also possible to start plugout listening from the Datamode->Misc menu.
AFNI_TSPATH
This variable should be set to any directory which you want to have AFNI scan for timeseries files (*.1D -- see the AFNI manual). If more than one directory is desired, then colons can be used to separate them, as in AFNI_PLUGINPATH. Note that timeseries files are read from all session directories, so directories provided by AFNI_TSPATH are designed to contain extra timeseries files that you want loaded no matter what AFNI sessions and datasets are being viewed.
AFNI_TCSV_VIEWNUM
This numeric value sets the number of preview lines for the AFNI *.tsv/*.csv (TCSV) file chooser. If you don't set this to a positive value, then the default number of preview lines is 4.
AFNI_MODELPATH
This variable should be set to the directory from which you want AFNI timeseries models to be loaded. These models are similar to plugins, and are used by programs 3dNLfim, 3dTSgen, and the plugin plug_nlfit (menu label "NLfit & NLerr") -- see documentation file 3dNLfim.ps. If AFNI_MODELPATH is not given, then AFNI_PLUGINPATH will be used instead.
AFNI_IMSIZE_* (or MCW_IMSIZE_*)
These variables (named AFNI_IMSIZE_1 to AFNI_IMSIZE_99) allow you to control how the AFNI programs read binary image files. The use of these is somewhat complicated, and is explained in detail at the end of the auxiliary programs manual (afni_aux.ps), in the section on "3D:" file specifications, and is also explained in the AFNI FAQ list.
AFNI_SESSTRAIL (editable)
This variable controls the number of directory levels shown when choosing between session directories with the "Switch Session" button. This variable should be set to a nonnegative integer. If a session directory name were this/is/a/directory/name/ then the "Switch Session" chooser would display the following: AFNI_SESSTRAIL Display -------------- ------- 0 name/ 1 directory/name/ 2 a/directory/name/ 3 is/a/directory/name/ 4 this/is/a/directory/name/ That is, AFNI_SESSTRAIL determines how many trailing levels of the directory name are used for the display. If AFNI_SESSTRAIL is not set, then it is equivalent to setting it to 0 (which was the old method).
AFNI_HINTS
This is a string controlling whether or not the popup "hints" are displayed when AFNI starts. If the string is "NO", then the hints are disabled when AFNI starts, otherwise they are enabled. In either case, they can be turned off and on interactively from the Define Datamode->Misc menu. Hints can be permanently disabled by setting the C macro DONT_USE_HINTS in machdep.h and recompiling AFNI. They can also be disabled at runtime by setting AFNI_HINTS to "KILL".
AFNI_COMPRESSOR (cf. AFNI_AUTOGZIP) (editable)
This variable is used to control automatic compression of .BRIK files on output. The legal values are "COMPRESS", "GZIP", "BZIP2", "PIGZ", which respectively invoke programs "compress", "gzip","bzip2" and "pigz" (these must be in your path for compression to work). If AFNI_COMPRESSOR is equal to one of these, then all AFNI programs will automatically pass .BRIK data through the appropriate compression program as it is written to disk. Note that this will slow down dataset write operations. Note also that compressed datasets cannot be mapped directly from disk into memory ('mmap'), but must occupy actual memory (RAM) and swap space. For more details, see file README.compression. Note that compressed (.BRIK.Z, .BRIK.gz, and .BRIK.bz2) datasets will automatically be uncompressed on input, no matter what the setting of this variable. AFNI_COMPRESSOR only controls how the datasets are written.
AFNI_DONT_USE_PIGZ
On some systems, the multi-threaded version of gzip -- program pigz -- can fail randomly. To prevent the use of pigz even if it is found, set this variable to YES. Note that if you explicitly set AFNI_COMPRESSOR to PIGZ, then AFNI_DONT_USE_PIGZ will be ignored. The purpose of AFNI_DONT_USE_PIGZ is to prevent the automatic use of the pigz program in cases where you don't provide AFNI_COMPRESSOR explicitly.
AFNI_BYTEORDER
This variable is used to control the byte order for output files. If you use it, the two legal values are "LSB_FIRST" and "MSB_FIRST". If you don't use it, the default order on your CPU will be used. The main purpose of this would be if you were using a mixture of CPU types reading shared disks (i.e., using NFS). If the majority of the systems were MSB_FIRST (e.g., SGI, HP, Sun), but there were a few LSB_FIRST systems (e.g., Intel, DEC Alpha), then you might want to do 'setenv AFNI_BYTEORDER MSB_FIRST' on all of the MSB_FIRST systems to make sure that the datasets that they write out are readable by the other computers. Note that AFNI programs can now check the .HEAD file for the byte order of a dataset, and will swap the bytes on input, if needed. If you wish to mark all of the datasets on a given system as being in a particular order, the following command should work: find /top/dir -name \*.HEAD -exec 3drefit -byteorder NATIVE_ORDER {} \; Here, '/top/dir' is the name of the top level directory under which you wish to search for AFNI datasets. The string NATIVE_ORDER means to set all datasets to the CPU default order, which is probably what you are using now. (You can use the program 'byteorder' to find out the native byte ordering of your CPU.)
AFNI_BYTEORDER_INPUT
This variable is used to control the byte order for input files. If you use it, the two legal values are "LSB_FIRST" and "MSB_FIRST". The value of this variable is only used for old datasets that do not have the byte order encoded in their headers. If this variable is not present, then the CPU native byte order is used. If this variable is present, and its value differs from the native byte order, then 2 byte dataset BRIKs (short) are 2-swapped (as in "ab" -> "ba") when they are read from disk, and 4 byte datasets (float, complex) are 4-swapped ("abcd" -> "dcba"). [per the request of John Koger]
AFNI_NOMMAP
This YES/NO variable can be used to turn off the mmap feature by which AFNI can load datasets into memory using the map-file-to-memory functionality of Unix. (Dataset .BRIK files will only be mmap-ed if they are not compressed and are in the native byte order of the CPU.) On some systems, mmap doesn't seem to work very well (e.g., Linux kernel version 1.2.13). You can disable mmap by 'setenv AFNI_NOMMAP YES'. The penalty for disabling mmap is that all datasets must be loaded into actual RAM. AFNI does not have the ability to load a dataset only partially, so if a 20 Megabyte .BRIK file is accessed, all of it will be loaded into RAM. With mmap, the Unix operating system will decide how much of the file to load. In this way, it is possible to deal with more files than you have swap space on your computer (since .BRIK files are mmap-ed in readonly mode, so they don't take up swap space, which is for saving modified memory pages). The moral of the story: buy more memory, it's cheap. At the time I write this line [Aug 1998], I have a PC with 384 MB of RAM, and it is great to use with AFNI. [Feb 2004] I now have a Mac G5 with 8 GB of RAM, and it is even greater! [Oct 2010] Now I have 32 GB of RAM (more than Ziad - ha!), and it's nice!
AFNI_PSPRINT (editable)
This variable is used to define a command that will print the standard input (stdin) to a PostScript printer. If it is defined, the "->printer" button on the timeseries "Plot" windows will work. For some Unix systems, the following should work: setenv AFNI_PSPRINT "lp -" For others, this may work setenv AFNI_PSPRINT "lpr -" It all depends on the printer software setup you have. To send the output into GhostView setenv AFNI_PSPRINT "ghostview -landscape -" In the (very far distant) future, other windows (e.g., image and graph displays) may get the ability to print to a PostScript file or printer.
AFNI_LEFT_IS_LEFT (editable)
Setting this YES/NO variable to YES tells AFNI to display images with the left side of the subject on the left side of the window. The default mode is to display the right side of the subject on the left side of the window - the radiology convention. This setting affects the coronal and axial image and graph viewers.
AFNI_LEFT_IS_POSTERIOR (editable)
Setting this YES/NO variable to YES tells AFNI to display images with the posterior side of the subject on the left side of the window. The default mode is to display the anterior side of the subject on the left side of the window. This setting affects the sagittal image and graph viewers.
AFNI_ALWAYS_LOCK
Setting this YES/NO variable to YES tells AFNI to start up with all the controller windows locked together. If you mostly use multiple controllers to view datasets in unison, then this will be useful. Notice that the Time Lock feature is not automatically enabled by this -- you must still actuate it manually from the Lock menu on the Define Datamode panel.
AFNI_TIME_LOCK
Setting this YES/NO variable to YES tells AFNI to start up with Time lock turned on. The Time Lock feature can be set manually from the Lock menu on the Define Datamode panel.
AFNI_ZOOM_LOCK
Setting this YES/NO variable to YES tells AFNI to start up with Zoom lock turned on. The Zoom Lock feature can be set manually from the Lock menu on the Define Datamode panel.
AFNI_RENDER_* (editable)
These variables set some defaults in the "Render Dataset" (volume rendering) plugin. The first two variables are AFNI_RENDER_ANGLE_DELTA = stepsize for viewing angles, in degrees AFNI_RENDER_CUTOUT_DELTA = stepsize for cutout dimensions, in mm These stepsizes control how much the control parameters change when one of their up- or down-arrows is pressed. Both of these stepsize values default to 5.0. The third variable is AFNI_RENDER_PRECALC_MODE = "Low", "Medium", or "High" This is used to set the initial precalculation mode for the renderer (this mode can be altered interactively, unlike the stepsizes). The fourth variable is AFNI_RENDER_SHOWTHRU_FAC = some number between 0.0 and 1.0 This is used to control the way in which the "ShowThru" Color Opacity option renders images. See the rendering plugin Help window for more information.
AFNI_NOREALPATH
Normally, when AFNI reads a list of session directories, it converts their names to the "real path" form, which follows symbolic links, and removes '/./' and '/../' components. These converted names are used for display purposes in the "Switch Session" chooser and in other places. If you wish to have the names NOT converted to the "real path" format, set this YES/NO environment variable to YES, as in setenv AFNI_NOREALPATH YES (For more information on the "real path" conversion, see the Unix man page for the realpath() function.) Note that if you use this feature, then the effect of AFNI_SESSTRAIL will be limited to what you type on the command line, since it is the realpath() function that provides the higher level hierarchies of the session names.
AFNI_NO_MCW_MALLOC
AFNI uses a set of "wrapper" macros and functions to let itself keep track of the memory allocated and freed by the C malloc() library. This is useful for debugging purposes (see the last items on the 'Misc' menu in the AFNI 'Define Datamode' control panel), but carries a small overhead (both in memory and speed). Setting this YES/NO environment variable to YES provides one way to disable this facility, as in setenv AFNI_NO_MCW_MALLOC YES Another way to permanently disable this capability (so that it isn't even compiled) is outlined in the file machdep.h. Also, the interactive AFNI program takes the command line switch "-nomall", which will turn off these functions for the given run. N.B.: Setting this variable in the .afnirc file will have no effect, since the decision whether to use the routines in mcw_malloc.c is made at the very start of the program, before .afnirc is scanned. Therefore, to use this variable, you must set it externally, perhaps in your .cshrc or .profile initialization file.
AFNI_FIM_BKTHR
This sets the threshold for the elimination of the background voxels during the interactive FIM calculations. The average intensity of all voxels in the first 3D volume used in the correlation is calculated. Voxels with intensity below 0.01 * AFNI_FIM_BKTHR * (this average) will not have the correlation computed. The default value is 10.0, but values as large as 50.0 may be useful. This parameter may be changed interactively from the FIM->Edit Ideal submenu in a graph viewer.
AFNI_FLOATSCAN (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then floating point bricks are checked for illegal values (NaN and Infinity) when they are read into an AFNI program -- illegal values will be replaced by zeros. If a dataset brick contains such illegal values that go undetected, AFNI programs will probably fail miserably, and have been known to go into nearly-infinite loops. Setting this variable implies setting AFNI_NOMMAP to YES, since only in-memory bricks can be altered (mmap-ed bricks are readonly). The command line program 'float_scan' can be used to check and patch floating point files. [14 Sep 1999] The program to3d will scan input float and complex files for illegal values, and patch illegal input numbers with zeros in the output dataset. If this behavior is not desired for some bizarre reason, the '-nofloatscan' command line option to to3d must be used.
AFNI_NOSPLASH
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the AFNI splash screen will not be displayed when the program starts. I'm not sure WHY you would want to disable this thing of beauty (which is a joy forever), but if your soul is thusly degraded, so be it.
AFNI_SPLASH_XY
If set, this variable should be in the form "100:37" (two integers separated by a colon). These values specify the (x,y) screen location where the splash window's upper left corner will be placed. If not set, x will be set to center the splash window on the display and y will be 100.
AFNI_SPLASHTIME
The value of this variable determines how long the AFNI splash screen will stay popped up, in seconds (default value = 5.0). The splash screen will always stay up until the first AFNI controller window is ready for use. If the time from program start to this ready condition is less than AFNI_SPLASHTIME, the splash screen will stay up until AFNI_SPLASHTIME has elapsed; otherwise, the splash screen will be removed as soon as AFNI is ready to go. By setting AFNI_SPLASHTIME to 0.0, you can have the splash screen removed as soon as possible (and the fade-out feature will be disabled).
AFNI_SPLASH_ANIMATE
If this variable is NO, then the splash screen animation will be disabled. Otherwise, it will run.
AFNI_SPLASH_MELT
If this variable is YES, then the splash screen will close via 'melting'.
AFNI_FIM_PERCENT_LIMIT (editable)
This sets an upper limit on the % Change that the FIM+ computation will compute. For example setenv AFNI_FIM_PERCENT_LIMIT 50 means that computed values over 50% will be set to 50%, and values below -50% will be set to -50%. This can be useful to avoid scaling problems that arise when some spurious voxels with tiny baselines have huge percent changes. This limit applies to all 3 possible percentages that FIM and FIM+ can compute: % from baseline, % from average, and % from top.
AFNI_NOTES_DLINES
This sets the upper limit on the number of lines displayed in the Notes plugin, for each note. If not present, the limit is 9 lines shown per note at once. To see a note longer than this limit, you'll have to use the vertical scrollbar.
AFNI_FIM_MASK
This chooses the default subset of values computed with the FIM+ button in a graph window. The mask should be the sum of the desired values from this list: 1 = Fit Coef 2 = Best Index 4 = % Change 8 = Baseline 16 = Correlation 32 = % From Ave 64 = Average 128 = % From Top 256 = Topline 512 = Sigma Resid If you don't set this variable, the default mask is 23 = 1+2+4+16.
AFNI_NO_BYTEORDER_WARNING
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then AFNI program will not warn you when reading in a dataset that does not contain a byte order flag. The default is to issue such a warning. Only older versions of AFNI create datasets that don't have the byte order flag. (See also the variable AFNI_BYTEORDER, described far above.) The purpose of this warning is to alert you to possible problems when you move datasets between computers with different CPU types.
AFNI_PCOR_DENEPS
The correlation coefficient calculated in FIM is calculated as the ratio of two quantities. If the denominator is negative or zero, then this value is meaningless and may even cause the program to crash. Mathematically, the denominator cannot be zero or negative, but this could arise due to finite precision arithmetic on the computer (i.e., roundoff error accumulation). To avoid this problem, the routine that computes the correlation coefficient compares the denominator to a value (called DENEPS) - if the denominator is less than DENEPS, then the correlation coefficient for that voxel is set to zero. The denominator that is being computed is proportional to the variance of the time series. If the voxel time series data is very small, then the variance will be really small - so much so that the DENEPS test will be failed, even though it shouldn't be. This problem has arisen when people input time series whose typical value is 0.001 or smaller. It never occurred to me that people would input data this small to the AFNI FIM routines. To get around this difficulty, set this environment variable to a value for DENEPS; for example setenv AFNI_PCOR_DENEPS 0.0 will turn off the checking entirely. Or you could do setenv AFNI_PCOR_DENEPS 1.e-10
AFNI_ENFORCE_ASPECT (editable)
Some X11 window managers do no enforce the aspect ratio (width to height proportion) request that the image display module makes. This means that image windows can become undesirably distorted when manually resized. Setting this YES/NO variable to YES will make AFNI itself enforce the aspect ratio whenever an image window is resized. ** NOTICE ** As of 10 May 2018, this variable no longer has any effect. The enforcement never worked well, and so you now have to manage this problem manually. To fix the aspect ratio of an image viewer window, Left-click in the image intensity bar (right of the image) or press the 'a' key while the mouse cursor is over the image.
AFNI_<plug_filename>_butcolor
These variables (one for each AFNI plugin) let you set the menu button colors for the Plugins menu item. For example setenv AFNI_plug_power_butcolor red3 will make the "Power Spectrum" button appear in a dark red color. The format of the variable is exemplified above: the <plug_filename> is replaced by the filename of the plugin (after removing the suffix). Note that it is possible for the plugin author to hardcode the menu button for his/her plugin, in which case the corresponding environment variable will have no effect. Colors are specified as described in file README.setup. If you are using an X11 PseudoColor visual, then you should be economical with color usage! The purpose of this feature is to let you highlight the plugins that you use most frequently. The size of the of plugin menu is growing, and it is easy to misplace what you most use in the list.
AFNI_MARKERS_NOQUAL (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the interactive AFNI program behaves as if the "-noqual" command line option had been included. This feature was added at the request of Dr. Michael S. Beauchamp, who has a very rare neurological disorder called "noqaulagnosia".
AFNI_ENABLE_MARKERS
As of 28 Apr 2010, the AFNI Talairach 'Define Markers' panel will no longer be visible by default. To use this old feature, you must set this variable to YES before running AFNI.
AFNI_OPTIONS
In the spirit of the previous variable, this variable can be used to set up command line options that will always be passed to the interactive AFNI program. If more than one option is needed, then they should be separated by spaces, and the whole value of the variable will need to be placed in quotes. For example setenv AFNI_OPTIONS "-noqual -ncolors 60" Note that the AFNI command line option "-nomall" cannot be specified this way (cf. the discussion under variable AFNI_NO_MCW_MALLOC).
AFNI_NO_SIDES_LABELS (editable)
As of 01 Dec 1999, the interactive AFNI program now displays a label beneath each image window showing which side of the image is on the left edge of the window. This label is based on the anatomical directions encoded in the anatomical dataset .HEAD file, usually when to3d was used to create the file. If you do NOT want these labels displayed (why not?), set this YES/NO environment variable to YES.
AFNI_NO_ADOPTION_WARNING
AFNI now can print a warning when it forces a dataset to have an anatomy parent dataset (the "forced adoption" function). This happens when there a dataset does not have an anatomy parent encoded into its .HEAD file (either via to3d or 3drefit), and there is more than one anatomical dataset in the directory that has Talairach transformation markers attached. If you wish to enable this warning, set this YES/NO variable to NO. For more information on this subject, please see https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/afni_faq.shtml#AnatParent .
AFNI_NO_NEGATIVES_WARNING
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then to3d will skip the usual warning that it pops up in a message window when it discovers negative values in the input short images. (The warning will still be printed to stdout.)
AFNI_NO_OBLIQUE_WARNING
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the AFNI GUI will skip the usual warning that it pops up in a message window when an oblique dataset is selected. (The warning will still be printed to stdout.)
AFNI_ONE_OBLIQUE_WARNING
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the AFNI GUI will pop up a warning just ONCE when an oblique dataset is encountered.
AFNI_NO_XDBE
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the X11 Double Buffer Extension (XDBE) will not be used, even if the X11 server supports it. This is needed when the X11 server says that it supports it, but actually does not implement it correctly - this is a problem on the Xsgi server running under IRIX 6.5.3 on R4400 machines.
AFNI_VIEW_ANAT_BRICK, AFNI_VIEW_FUNC_BRICK (editable)
One of the (very few) confusing parts of AFNI is the "warp-on-demand" viewing of transformed datasets (e.g., in the +tlrc coordinate system). This allows you to look at slices taken from transformed volumes without actually computing and storing the entire transformed dataset. This viewing mode is controlled by from the "Define Datamode" control panel. When an anatomical dataset has a +tlrc.BRIK file, then you can choose between "View Anat Data Brick" and "Warp Anat on Demand"; when there is no +tlrc.BRIK file for the dataset, then only "Warp Anat on Demand" is possible. If you switch the Talairach view when the current anat dataset does not have a +tlrc.BRIK file, then the "Warp Anat on Demand" mode will be turned on. If you then switch to a dataset that does have a +tlrc.BRIK file, "Warp Anat on Demand" will still be turned on, although the "View Anat Data Brick" option will be enabled. If you set the YES/NO variable AFNI_VIEW_ANAT_BRICK to YES, then "View Anat Data Brick" will be turned on whenever possible after switching datasets. Similarly, setting AFNI_VIEW_FUNC_BRICK to YES will engage "View Func Data Brick" whenever possible (when the BRIK file exists and its grid spacing matches the anatomical grid spacing). Note that switching any dataset (func or anat) triggers the same routine, and will set either or both "View Brick" modes on. When these environment variables are present, the only way to switch to "Warp" mode when "View Brick" mode is possible is to do it manually (by clicking on the toggle button) when you want this. When you use one of the drawing plugins ("Draw Dataset" or "Gyrus Finder"), you must operate directly on the dataset BRIK. For this reason, it is important to be in "View Data Brick" mode on these occasions. Setting these variables is one way to ensure that this will happen whenever possible. When AFNI is in "Warp Anat on Demand" mode, the word "{warp}" will appear in the windows' titlebars. This provides a reminder of the viewing mode you are using (warped from a brick, or data directly extracted from a brick), since the "Define Datamode" control panel will not always be open. 08 Aug 2003: I have modified the way these variables are treated in AFNI so that they now default to the "YES" behavior. If you don't want this, you have to explicitly set them to "NO" from this day forth.
AFNI_RECENTER_VIEWING (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then AFNI's viewers will reset the crosshair coordinate to the center of the dataset whenever a new dataset or sub-brick is chosen. The only real reason to use this feature is if you are scanning through a collection of datasets with wildly different coordinates, so that the usual method of matching (x,y,z) coordinates at such times gives useless results.
TMPDIR
This variable specifies the directory where temporary files are to be written. It is not unique to AFNI, but is used by many Unix programs. You must have permission to write into this directory. If you want to use the current directory, setting TMPDIR to "." would work. If TMPDIR is not defined, directory /tmp will be used. On some systems, this directory may not have enough space for the creation of large temporary datasets. On most Unix systems, you can tell the size of various disk partitions using a command like "df -k" (on HPUX, "bdf" works).
AFNI_GRAYSCALE_BOT
This variable sets the darkest level shown in a grayscale image window. The default value is 55 (a leftover from Andrzej Jesmanowicz). You can set this value to anything from 0 to 254.
AFNI_SYSTEM_AFNIRC
If this variable is set, it is the name of a file to be read like the user's .afnirc file (see README.setup). The purpose is to allow a system-wide setup file to be used. To do this, you would create such a file in a useful place - perhaps where you store the AFNI binaries. Then each user account should have the equivalent of setenv AFNI_SYSTEM_AFNIRC /place/where/setup/is/stored/.afnirc defined in its .cshrc (.bashrc, etc.) file. Note that it doesn't make sense to define this variable in the user's .afnirc file, since that file won't be read until AFTER this file is read. Also note that use of the -skip_afnirc option will cause both the system and user setup files to be skipped.
AFNI_PBAR_IMXY (editable)
This variable determines the size of the image saved when the "Save to PPM" button is selected for a color pbar. It should be in the format setenv AFNI_PBAR_IMXY 20x256 which means to set the x-size (horizontal) to 20 pixels and the y-size (vertical) to 256 pixels. These values are the default, by the way.
AFNI_LAYOUT_FILE
If defined, this variable is the name of a file to read at startup to define the "layout" of AFNI windows at the program start. If this name starts with a '/' character, then it is an absolute path; otherwise, it is taken to be a path relative to the user's home directory ($HOME). If the AFNI command line switch "-layout" is used, it will override this specification. The simplest way to produce a layout file is to use the "Save Layout" button on the Datamode->Misc menu. You can then edit this file; the format should be fairly self-explanatory. The structure of the file is similar to the .afnirc file (cf. README.setup). In fact, the layout file can be included into .afnirc (since it is just another *** section) and then setting AFNI_LAYOUT_FILE = .afnirc in the ***ENVIRONMENT section should work. A sample layout file: ***LAYOUT A geom=+73+1106 // start controller A A.sagittalimage geom=320x320+59+159 ifrac=0.8 // and Sagittal image A.sagittalgraph geom=570x440+490+147 matrix=9 // and Sagittal graph B // start controller B B.plugin.ROI_Average // start a plugin Each window to be opened has a separate command line in this file. The "geom=" qualifiers specify the size and position of the windows. For images, "ifrac=" can be used to specify the fraction of the window occupied by the image (if "ifrac=1.0", then no control widgets will be visible). For graphs, "matrix=" can be used to control the initial number of sub-graphs displayed. For plugins, the label on the button that starts the plugin is used after the ".plugin." string (blanks should be filled with underscores "_"). In the example above, the last two windows to be opened do not have a "geom=" qualifier, so their placement will be chosen by the window manager. If you add "slow" after the "***LAYOUT", then each window operation will be paused for 1 second to let you watch the layout operations proceed gradually. Otherwise, they will be executed as fast as possible (which still may not be all that fast). Using layouts with a window manager that requires user placement of new windows (e.g., twm) is a futile and frustrating exercise. If you do NOT have any layout file defined, then AFNI will choose a layout for you that includes opening image viewers. Some people find this very annoying. The simplest way to avoid this annoyance is to set AFNI_LAYOUT_FILE to a name of a file that doesn't exist (e.g., 'ElvisIsAliveOnPlanetZork'). The reason for this default layout behavior (added Dec 2010) is that we received complaints that novice users were finding AFNI too confusing on startup. (Hard to believe, but true.)
AFNI_tsplotgeom
Related to the above, if you set this environment variable (in the ***ENVIRONMENT section, not in the ***LAYOUT section), it is used to set the geometry of the plotting windows used for time series plots, histograms, etc. -- all the graphs except the dataset plots. Its format should be something like "550x350"; this example sets the width to 550 pixels and the height to 350 pixels. If you don't set this, the default is "200x200", which is quite small on a high resolution display.
AFNI_FIM_IDEAL
This variable specifies the filename of the initial FIM ideal timeseries. The main use of this would be to be able to initialize the Realtime plugin without direct user intervention.
AFNI_FIM_SAVEREF
When you run the interactive AFNI 'fim' (from the graph viewer FIM menu), the program saves the reference time series (and ort time series, if any) in the new functional dataset header, with the attribute name AFNI_FIM_REF (or AFNI_FIM_ORT). If you do NOT want this information saved, then set this variable to NO. Two sample ways to use this information is the command below: 1dplot "`3dAttribute -ssep ' ' AFNI_FIM_REF r1_time@1+orig`" 1dcat "`3dAttribute -ssep ' ' AFNI_FIM_REF r1_time@1+orig`" > ref.1D The 3 different styles of Unix quotes must be used exactly as shown here!
AFNI_PLUGINS_ALPHABETIZE
If this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then the plugin buttons will not be alphabetized on the menu, and they will appear in the order which AFNI chooses. Otherwise, the plugin menu buttons will be alphabetized by default. Alphabetizing is done without regard to case (using the C library routine strcasecmp).
AFNI_VOLREG_EDGING
This variable affects the operation of 3dvolreg, the volume registration plugin, and the 3D registration code in the realtime acquisition plugin. It determines the size of the region around the edges of the base volume where the default weight will be set to zero. Call the value of this variable 'ee'. If 'ee' is a plain number (e.g., 5), then it is a voxel count, giving the thickness along each face of the 3D brick. If 'ee' is of the form '5%', then it is a fraction of of each brick size. For example, '5%' of a 256x256x124 volume means that 13 voxels on each side of the xy-axes will get zero weight, and 6 along the z-axis. '5%' is the default value used by the 3D registration routines (in mri_3dalign.c) if no other value is specified.
AFNI_TRACE
This variable controls the initial setting of the tracing (debugging) code when AFNI programs startup. If it is set to 'y', then tracing is turned on and set to the LOW mode (like -trace in AFNI). If it is set to 'Y', then tracing is turned on and set to the HIGH mode (like -TRACE in AFNI). Anything else, and tracing is turned off. N.B.: You can't set this variable in .afnirc and expect it to have any effect (and why would you want to?), since it is read from the environment BEFORE the .afnirc file is read in. N.B.: At this moment (26 Jan 2001), only the AFNI program itself is configured for tracing. As time goes on, the entire AFNI programming library and suite of programs will be revamped for this purpose. The goal is to make it easier to find bugs, and localize crashes.
AFNI_TRACE_FILE
If this variable is set, then the output from the AFNI function tracing macros will be written to a file with that name, rather than to stdout. This variable cannot be set in .afnirc; the intention is to provide a way to get 'clean' tracing output (not mixed up with other program junk) that can be fed to Ziad Saad's AnalyzeTrace function.
AFNI_ROTA_ZPAD
This variable controls the amount of zero-padding used during 3D rotations in 3drotate, 3dvolreg, etc. It provides a default value for the "-zpad" options of these programs. If zero-padding is used, then this many voxels are padded out on each edge (all 6 faces) of a 3D brick before rotation. After the rotation, these perimeter values (whatever they might be) will be stripped off. If "-zpad" is used on the command line, it overrides this value. Zero padding during rotation is useful to avoid edge effects, the worst of which is the loss of data off the edge of the volume during the 4 shearing stages.
AFNI_TO3D_ZPAD
This variable sets the number of slices added on each z-face in datasets created by program to3d. It provides a default value for the "-zpad" option of that program. It can be set to an integer, meaning a slice count, or a number of millimeters, meaning a minimum distance to pad: setenv AFNI_TO3D_ZPAD 2 setenv AFNI_TO3D_ZPAD 16mm If "-zpad" is used on the to3d command line, it overrides this value. If neither is present, no zero padding is used. Note well that this padding is only in the z-direction, unlike that of AFNI_ROTA_ZPAD.
AFNI_OPEN_AXIAL, AFNI_OPEN_SAGITTAL, AFNI_OPEN_CORONAL
When the AFNI GUI starts, by default it opens all 3 image viewer windows. If you do NOT want a particular one of these, set the corresponding variable named above to NO. For finer control over AFNI startup, see the AFNI_STARTUP_SCRIPT variable and README.driver.
AFNI_IMAGE_MINFRAC (editable)
This variable sets the minimum size of an image window when it is first opened, in terms of a fraction of the overall screen area. By default, this value is set to 0.02; you can override this by (for example) setenv AFNI_IMAGE_MINFRAC 0.05 If you set this value to 0.0, then there will be no minimum. This is the old behavior, where the initial window size is always 1 screen pixel per data pixel, and can lead to image windows that are hard to resize or otherwise use (when the dataset is small). The largest value I recommend for AFNI_IMAGE_MINFRAC is 0.1; however, you can set it to as large as 0.9 if you are completely crazy, but I'm not responsible for the results -- don't even think of complaining or commenting to me about problems that arise if you try this!
AFNI_IMAGE_MAXFRAC
This variable sets the maximum size of an image window, as a fraction of the width and height of the screen. The default value is 0.9. This lets you prevent image windows from auto-resizing to be too big when you change datasets. Note that if you have turned on AFNI_ENFORCE_ASPECT, then this feature will prevent you from resizing a window to be larger than the AFNI_IMAGE_MAXFRAC fraction of the screen dimensions.
AFNI_AUTOGZIP (cf. AFNI_COMPRESSOR) (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when AFNI programs write a dataset .BRIK file to disk, they will test to see if the data is easily compressible (at least 80%). If so, then the GZIP compression will be used. (For this to work, the gzip program must be in your path.) This can be useful if you are dealing with mask datasets, which are usually highly compressible, but don't want the overhead of trying to compress and decompress arbitrary MRI datasets. A command line method to carry out compression of datasets that will compress well is to use a csh script like the following: #!/bin/csh foreach fred ( `find . -name \*.BRIK -print` ) ent16 -%50 < $fred if( $status == 1 ) gzip -1v $fred end This will only gzip .BRIK files that the program ent16 estimates will compress by at least 50%. Note that ent16's estimate of compression may be high or low relative to what gzip actually does.
AFNI_DONT_MOVE_MENUS (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the functions that try to move popup menus to "good" locations on screens will be skipped. This seems to be necessary on some Solaris systems, where the menus can end up being moved to bizarre locations.
AFNI_IMAGE_DATASETS
If this YES/NO variable is not set to NO, then 2D image files (*.png and *.jpg) will be read as datasets when the interactive AFNI program starts. That is, you have to set this variable explicitly to NO if you do not want image files read into the AFNI GUI at startup. Image files can be opened using the Axial image viewer.
AFNI_MINC_DATASETS
If this YES/NO variable is not set to NO, then MINC-format files with name suffix .mnc will be read into the interactive AFNI program at startup, along with standard .HEAD/.BRIK datasets. That is, you have to set this variable explicitly to NO if you don't want MINC-format files to be automatically recognized by the interactive AFNI program. This variable does not affect the ability of command line programs (3dSomething) to read .mnc input files.
AFNI_MINC_FLOATIZE
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when MINC-format files are read in as datasets, their values will be scaled to floats. Otherwise, their values will be scaled to the same data type as stored in the file. In some cases, the latter behavior is not good; for example, if a byte-valued file (intrinsic range 0..255) is scaled to the range 0..0.5 in the MINC header, then after conversion back to bytes, the resulting AFNI dataset values will all be zero. Setting AFNI_MINC_FLOATIZE to YES will cause the scaled values to be stored as floats.
AFNI_MINC_SLICESCALE
If this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then AFNI will not use the image-min and image-max scaling when reading data from MINC files. Normally, you want this scaling, since MINC files are scaled separately in each slice. However, if the image-min and image-max values in the MINC file are damaged, then you can turn off the scaling this way.
AFNI_ANALYZE_SCALE
If this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then the "funused1" entry in the Mayo Analyze .hdr file will not be used as a scale factor for the images contained in the corresponding .img file. Otherwise, if funused1 is positive and not equal to 1.0, all the image data in the .img file will be scaled by this value.
AFNI_ANALYZE_FLOATIZE
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then Mayo Analyze files will be scaled to floats on input. Otherwise, they will be read in the format in which they are stored in the .img file. Conversion to floats can be useful if the scaling factor is such that the image native format can't hold the scaled values; for example, if short values in the image range from -1000..1000 and the scale factor is 0.0001, then the scaled values range from -0.1..0.1, which would be truncated to 0 in the scaled image if it is not "floatized". (Conversion to floats will only be done to byte, short, and int image types.)
AFNI_ANALYZE_ORIGINATOR
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then AFNI will attempt to read and use the ORIGINATOR field in a Mayo Analyze file to set the origin of the pixel space in AFNI. This origin can be used directly by several programs--the main AFNI viewer, and all of the 3dxxxx programs, including especially 3dcopy, which is the preferred way to convert an Analyze format file to an AFNI native file. This variable will also force 3dAFNItoANALYZE to write the ORIGINATOR field into the output Analyze file based on the input AFNI file's origin information. The ORIGINATOR field should be compatible with SPM in most cases, but please verify this.
AFNI_START_SMALL
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when AFNI starts, it will look for the smallest dataset in the first session, and choose this as its starting point. This can be useful if you also use the layout feature to pop open an image window on startup; in that case, if the default starting dataset (the first alphabetical) is huge, you won't see anything while the program reads all of into memory before displaying the first image. The old behavior of this variable was to set the smallest dataset marked as 'Anatomical' to be the underlay, and the smallest dataset marked as 'Functional' to be the overlay. The new behavior just sets both the underlay and overlay to be the smallest dataset. If you want the old behavior, set this variable to the string 'OLD'.
AFNI_MENU_COLSIZE
This numerical variable sets the maximum number of entries in a popup menu column (e.g., like the sub-brick menus for bucket datasets). The default value is 20, but you may want to make this larger (say 40). When you have a menu with a huge number of entries, the menu can become so wide that it doesn't fit on the screen. Letting the columns be longer will make the menus be narrower across the screen. Another way to get a handle on such huge menus is to Button-3 (right) click on the label to the left of the menu. This will popup a one- column scrollable list chooser that is equivalent to the menu. In this way, it is still possible to use menus that have hundreds of entries. The maximum number of entries shown at one time in a scrollable list chooser is given by variable AFNI_chooser_listmax if it exists, otherwise by AFNI_MENU_COLSIZE.
AFNI_GLOBAL_SESSION
This variable, if it exists, is the name of a directory that contains "global" datasets - ones that you want to be visible in each "Switch Underlay" or "Switch Overlay" menu. Pointers to the datasets read from this directory will be appended to the dataset list for each directory read from the command line. In the "Switch" choosers, these datasets are marked with the character 'G' at the right, and they appear last in the list. It really only makes sense to put +tlrc (i.e., in a template space) datasets in the global session directory, since only they can be presumed to be aligned with other datasets. Also, it is probably best if you make sure each global anatomical dataset has itself as the anatomy parent; this can be enforced by issuing the command 3drefit -apar SELF *.HEAD *.nii *.nii.gz in the global session directory. In my [RWC's] global session directory, there is one file: MNI152_2009_template_SSW.nii.gz which I copied there from the AFNI binaries download. In this way, I always have available the human template which I use most often. When you Switch Sessions and are viewing a global dataset, it is likely that you will NOT be viewing the same dataset after the Switch Session. You will have to then Switch Underlay and/or Switch Overlay to get back to the same global dataset(s). If you start AFNI and there are no datasets in the sessions given on the command line, then the directory specified by this variable becomes the default session. If there are no datasets there, either, then AFNI makes up a dummy dataset (AFNI cannot operate without at least one dataset present).
AFNI_DISP_SCROLLBARS (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the 'Disp' control window (on the image viewers) will have scrollbars attached. This window has grown larger over the years, and for some people with pitifully small displays (e.g., laptops), it is now taller than their screens. If activated, this option will prevent the Disp window from being so tall and will attach scrollbars so you can access all of its contents. Note: If you change this value interactively, via Edit Environment, the change will only affect Disp windows opened after you 'Set' the variable. That is, already opened Disp windows won't suddenly get scrollbars if you change this to YES.
AFNI_GRAPH_TEXTLIMIT (editable)
This numerical variable sets the upper limit on the number of rows shown in the Button-3 popup in a sub-graph. If the number of rows in the popup would be more than this value, a text window with scrollbars is used instead of a "spring-loaded" menu pane. If you set this value to 1, then the text window will always be used. Note that a text window does not automatically popdown, but must be explicitly dismissed by the user pressing the "Quit" button.
AFNI_GRAPH_BASELINE
This variable should be set to one of the strings "Individual", "Common", or "Global", corresponding to the choices on the Opt->Baseline menu in a graph window. (Actually, only the first letter of the string will be used.) This variable will determine the initial setting of the Baseline menu when a graph window opens.
AFNI_GRAPH_GLOBALBASE
Normally, the global baseline for a graph window is set to the smallest value found in the entire 3D+time dataset. This variable lets you specify a numerical value to be used for this purpose instead. Probably the most common setting (for those who want to use this feature at all, which means Mike Beauchamp) would be setenv AFNI_GRAPH_GLOBALBASE 0 Of course, you can always change the global baseline from the Opt->Baseline menu.
AFNI_GRAPH_CX2R (editable)
This variable determines how the AFNI time series graphing window displays complex-valued datasets. The possible values are ABS, PHASE, REAL, and IMAG. (Actually, only the first letter matters to the program.) The default method is ABS. (If you edit this method interactively, the graph won't automatically be redrawn -- you'll have to force a graph window redraw to see the effects.)
AFNI_GRAPH_BOXLAB — THIS VARIABLE HAS BEEN REMOVED [11 Jan 2021]
Formerly, this variable determined how the AFNI grapher displays sub-brick labels on top of the Box graphs (from the 'Colors, Etc.' menu, or via the 'B' keypress). Now, the choice of if and where the labels appear is made directly in the graph viewer menus.
AFNI_GRAPH_FONT
This variable is the name of a font to use for text overlays in the AFNI time series graph viewers. If this variable is not set, the program has a list of fonts to try to load. If none of those can be loaded (something I've never seen happen), text may not display. For best results, this should be a fixed width font. To see a full list of all X11 fonts available, use the system command 'xlsfonts' (you probably want to pipe this output through 'more'). The first default font is currently [Apr 2011] set to -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 For a font that is larger than the default, try 9x15bold or even 10x20, as in the command afni -DAFNI_GRAPH_FONT=9x15bold The entire list of fonts that will be tried can be found in the source code file display.h, in the string array tfont_hopefuls[].
AFNI_GRAPH_FADE
If this variable is set to YES, then the 'threshold fade' feature of the AFNI graph window is turned on for all graph viewers when they open. Otherwise, you have to turn this feature on via the 'F' key or the toggle control in the Opt menu.
AFNI_GRAPH_ALLOW_SHIFTN
If set to YES, this variable allows the use of the following keystroke sequence in the AFNI graph viewer: shift-N digit [digit ...] <Enter> The result is to immediately shift the graph matrix count (number of sub-graphs) to the decimal integer expressed by the digits. For example: N7<Enter> will set the graph window to show a 7x7 matrix of sub-graphs. By default, this is disabled, since it confuses some beginners -- until you press the <Enter> key, the graph window will be unresponsive to other keys.
AFNI_AdptMeanWidth1D
This variable lets you add a new Adaptive Mean filter to the 'Tran 1D' transformations menu in the AFNI graph viewer. The built in adaptive mean filter widths are 9 time points (plus/minus 4 about each value) and 19 time points (plus/minus 9). If you define this variable to be an odd integer larger than 9, not equal to 19, and less than 100, then a new function labeled 'AdptMeanXX' will appear in the 'Tran 1D' menu, where 'XX' is the width you choose here. This transformation is mainly for 'fun' -- to smooth out a time series to see structure obscured by noise. You can combine this function with the |FFT| function using the 'Edit 1Dchain' item in the Datamode->Misc menu.
AFNI_VALUE_LABEL (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the data value label on the Define Overlay control panel will be turned on when only 1 or 2 image viewer windows are open. This will consume more CPU time and redrawing time than the default, which is that this label is only turned on when all 3 image viewer windows are open. If you are operating X11 remotely over a slow connection, this option should not be turned on.
AFNI_SUMA_BOXCOLOR_xxx
This string defines the color used for overlaying surface nodes transmitted from SUMA to AFNI. This applies to surface number 'xxx', for xxx=001, 002, etc. If this is set to "none", then these boxes (at each node near a slice) won't be plotted. **NOTE** This variable, and the immediately following AFNI_SUMA_something variables, can be set interactively from the 'Control Surface' chooser window in the AFNI GUI. **NOTE** The colors allowed for surface display in AFNI are chosen via AFNI's color chooser menu. So no matter what color you specify in one of these AFNI_SUMA_something variables, it will be mapped to be the closest color on the color chooser menu.
AFNI_SUMA_LINECOLOR_xxx
This string defines the color used for overlaying surfaces transmitted from SUMA to AFNI. This applies to surface number 'xxx', for xxx=001, 002, etc. If this is set to "none", then these lines (intersections of surfaces with slices) won't be plotted. In the special case that xxx=DEF, then the supplied color becomes 'default' for all lines. Individual line colors can still be set by additional variables with xxx=001, 002, etc. being set.
AFNI_SUMA_LINECOLOR_FORCE_xxx
This variable is similar to AFNI_SUMA_LINECOLOR_xxx (again, for xxx=001 etc.), except for one detail. When SUMA sends a surface to AFNI for display, it can also send a color. If that happens, then AFNI_SUMA_LINECOLOR_xxx will have no effect. But AFNI_SUMA_LINECOLOR_FORCE_xxx will over-ride the choice SUMA makes and forces the color for surface number 'xxx' to be this color. The special usage of xxx=DEF (see AFNI_SUMA_LINECOLOR_xxx) also applies here.
AFNI_SUMA_BOXSIZE
This variable defines the size of the boxes drawn at each surface node transmitted from SUMA. The default is 0.25, which means that each box is plus and minus 1/4 of a voxel size about the node location. If you want a larger box, you could try setenv AFNI_SUMA_BOXSIZE 0.5
AFNI_SUMA_LINESIZE
This variable sets the thickness of the lines used when drawing a surface intersection overlay. The units are the width of the entire image; reasonable values are in the range 0..0.01; 0 means to draw the thinnest line possible. Since this is editable, you can experiment with it to see what looks good.
AFNI_NIML_START
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then NIML listening will be engaged from when AFNI starts. You can also enable NIML from the command line with the option "-niml", and from the Datamode->Misc menu item "Start NIML". NIML is the mechanism by which AFNI talks to other programs - it is the successor to plugouts. At this moment (Mar 2002), the only external NIML program is SUMA - the surface mapper.
AFNI_KEEP_PANNING (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when the Zoom pan gets turned on in the AFNI image viewer, it will stay on until it is explicitly turned off. (The default behavior is to turn panning off after the user releases the mouse button.)
AFNI_IMAGE_LABEL_MODE
This integer determines the placement of the image coordinate labels drawn in the AFNI image viewer windows. The possible values are 0 = Labels are off 1 = Labels in upper left 2 = Labels in upper right 3 = Labels in lower left 4 = Labels in lower right 5 = Labels in upper middle 6 = Labels in lower middle You can also control the placement and size of the labels from the Button-3 (right-click) popup menu attached to the intensity bar to the right of the image sub-window.
AFNI_IMAGE_LABEL_SIZE
This integer determines the size of the image coordinate labels: 0 = Small 1 = Medium 2 = Large 3 = Huge 4 = Enormous
AFNI_IMAGE_LABEL_COLOR (editable)
This variable controls the color of the image coordinate labels.
AFNI_IMAGE_LABEL_SETBACK (editable)
This variable, a floating point value between 0 and 0.1, determines how far from the edge an image coordinate label will be drawn. The units are fractions of the image width/height.
AFNI_IMAGE_LABEL_STRING (editable)
This value of this variable is a string that is appended to the automatically generated image slice viewer overlay label -- the viewing of this label is controlled from the right-click popup menu attached to the intensity bar to the right of the image itself. This variable applies to any slice image viewer window into which the user has not specifically set a string for this purpose from the GUI menu item 'Label Append String'.
AFNI_IMAGE_LABEL_IJK (editable)
If this variable is YES, then the image label will be based on the slice index rather than the spatial (mm) coordinate. This variable can be set in the EditEnv AFNI GUI plugin (that is what 'editable' means).
AFNI_CROSSHAIR_LINES (editable) – THIS VARIABLE IS NOW UNUSED
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the image crosshairs will be drawn using lines rather than pixels. By default (this is the original AFNI way), crosshair lines are drawn the same way as functional overlays: by putting color pixels on top of the image. The new way draws lines on top of the image instead. The difference is quite visible when the image is zoomed; overlay by pixels shows the crosshair lines as fat blobs, but the lines are drawn as thin as possible, no matter what the image window size and zoom factor. Good points about crosshairs drawn with lines: - They are less obtrusive than pixel overlay, especially if you zoom or enlarge the image a lot - When doing a montage with Spacing=1, they'll look better in the orthogonal slices. Good points about crosshairs drawn with pixel overlay: - Pixel overlays can be rendered as translucent (on X11 TrueColor displays); geometrical overlays are always solid color. So you have to decide what you need most. You can change this item using the "Edit Environment" pseudo-plugin on the Datamode->Misc menu, so you can play with it interactively to get the features you want.
AFNI_CROSSHAIR_THICKNESS
This numeric variable lets you set the thickness of the lines used to draw the image viewer crosshairs. The default value is 0, which means thin lines. The units are fractions of the image size, and the legal range is 0 .. 0.05 (which will be very thick lines, I assure you). This variable was introduced in March 2015 for Corianne (if there is such a person).
AFNI_CROSSHAIRS_OFF
Set this variable to YES to turn off crosshairs for AFNI startup.
AFNI_CROP_ZOOMSAVE (editable)
When saving a zoomed image, the default is to save the entire zoomed image, not just the part you see. If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then only the visible part will be saved.
AFNI_CROP_AUTOCENTER
If this variable is set to YES, then the image viewer windows will automatically re-center the cropping sub-window (if cropping is active) around the crosshair position -- as far as possible. You can also set this crop autocenter capability individually for each image viewer window from the intensity bar right-click popup menu.
AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_*
These variables let you choose the size of the "Talairach Box", into which +tlrc datasets are transformed. If defined, they should be positive values, in mm. The 5 variables (any or all of which may be used) are: AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_LAT = distance from midline to maximum left/right position [default=80] AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_ANT = distance from AC to most anterior point in box [default=80] AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_POS = distance from AC to most posterior point in box [default=110] AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_INF = distance from AC-PC line to most inferior point in box [default=55 for small box, 65 for big box] AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_SUP = distance from AC-PC line to most superior point in box [default=85] For example, "setenv AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_INF 100" lets you define the +tlrc box to extend 100 mm below the AC-PC line. Please note that virtually all the 3d* analysis programs (3dANOVA, etc.) do voxel-by-voxel analyses. This fact means that you will be unable to compare datasets created in +tlrc coordinates with different box sizes. Also, you will be unable to overlay regions from the Talairach Daemon database onto odd-sized +tlrc datasets. Therefore, I recommend that these variables be used only when strictly needed, and with caution. Lastly, try hard not to mix TLRC datasets created with various box sizes in the same session. Strange things may happen.
AFNI_ACPC_BBOX_*
The variables let you choose the size of the "ACPC Box", into which +acpc datasets are transformed. If defined, they should be positive values, in mm. The 6 variables (any or all of which may be used) are: AFNI_ACPC_BBOX_LAT = distance from midline to maximum left/right position [default=95] AFNI_ACPC_BBOX_ANT = distance from AC to most anterior point in box [default=95] AFNI_ACPC_BBOX_POS = distance from AC to most posterior point in box [default=140] AFNI_ACPC_BBOX_INF = distance from AC-PC line to most inferior point in box [default=70] AFNI_ACPC_BBOX_SUP = distance from AC-PC line to most superior point in box [default=100] Check example and heed ALL warnings for variables AFNI_TLRC_BBOX_* above.
AFNI_TTRR_SETUP
Name of a file to be loaded to define Talairach Atlas Colors, when the Atlas Colors control panel is first created. Format is the same as a file created from this control panel's "Save" button. This filename should be an absolute path (e.g., /home/yourname/.afni_ttcolors), since otherwise it will be read relative to the directory in which you start AFNI.
AFNI_LOAD_PRINTSIZE
AFNI will print (to stderr) a warning that it is loading a large dataset from disk. This value determines the meaning of "large". For example, setting this variable to "40M" means that loading a dataset larger than 40 Megabytes will trigger the warning. If not given, the default value is 100 Megabytes. The purpose of the warning is just to let the user know that it may be several seconds before the dataset is loaded (e.g., before the images appear). If you don't want this warning at all, set this variable to the string "0".
AFNI_ANALYZE_DATASETS
If this YES/NO variable is not set to NO, then ANALYZE-format files with name suffix .hdr will be read into the interactive AFNI program at startup, along with standard .HEAD/.BRIK datasets. That is, you have to set this variable explicitly to NO if you don't want ANALYZE-format files to be automatically recognized by the interactive AFNI program. This variable does not affect the ability of command line programs (3dSomething) to read .hdr input files.
AFNI_ANALYZE_ORIENT
ANALYZE .hdr files do not contain reliable information about the orientation of the data volumes. By default, AFNI assumes that these datasets are oriented in LPI order. You can set this variable to a different default order. See AFNI_ORIENT for details on the 3 letter format for this.
AFNI_ANALYZE_AUTOCENTER
ANALYZE .hdr files do not contain information about the origin of coordinates. The default AFNI approach mirrors that of FSL - the outermost corner of the first voxel in the dataset is set to (0,0,0). If you set this variable (AFNI_ANALYZE_AUTOCENTER) to YES, then instead (0,0,0) will be set to the center of the 3D ANALYZE array. This is the default that would be applied if you read the ANALYZE array into program to3d.
AFNI_VERSION_CHECK
If this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then AFNI will not try to check if its version is up-to-date when it starts. Otherwise, it will try to check the program version with the AFNI web server.
AFNI_MOTD_CHECK
Similarly, if this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then AFNI will not display and fetch the AFNI "Message of the Day" at startup. You can always check the MOTD by using the Datamode->Misc menu.
AFNI_SLICE_SPACING_IS_GAP
This YES/NO variable is designed to patch a flaw in some DICOM files, where the "Spacing Between Slices" attribute is erroneously set to the gap between the slices, rather than the center-to-center slice distance specified in the DICOM standard. If this variable is set to YES, then the "Slice Thickness" attribute will always be added to "Spacing Between Slices" to get the z voxel size (assuming both attributes are present in the DICOM file). To check if a DICOM file has this problem, you can read it into to3d with the command "to3d suspect_file_name". A warning will be printed to the terminal window if attribute "Spacing Between Slices" is less than attribute "Slice Thickness". Another way to check is with a command like so dicom_hdr suspect_file_name | grep "Slice" then check if the "Spacing Between Slices" and "Slice Thickness" values are correct for the given acquisition. We have only seen this problem in GE generated DICOM files, but that doesn't mean it won't occur elsewhere. If this variable is set to NO, then this patchup will never be made. The z voxel size will be set to "Spacing Between Slices" if present, otherwise to "Slice Thickness". This may be needed for some Phillips pulse sequences, which can report "Spacing Between Slices" < "Slice Thickness". In such a case, if this variable is not set, the wrong z voxel size will be assigned! If this variable is not set at all, AND if "Spacing Between Slices" is less less than 0.99 times "Slice Thickness", it will be treated as a gap; that is, the z voxel size will again be set to "Spacing Between Slices" + "Slice Thickness" if "Spacing Between Slices" < 0.99*"Slice Thickness". Otherwise, the z voxel size will be set to the larger of "Spacing Between Slices" and "Slice Thickness". N.B.: "YES", "NO", and "not set" have 3 different sets of behavior! In the summary below, if a variable isn't set, treat it as zero: YES => dz = Thickness + Spacing NO => dz = Spacing if present, otherwise Thickness not set => if( Spacing > 0 && Spacing < 0.99*Thickness ) dz = Thickness + Spacing else dz = MAX( Thickness , Spacing ) If neither variable is set, then dz=1 mm, which is probably wrong. Sorry about this complexity, but the situation with various manufacturers is complicated, murky, and confusingly maddening.
AFNI_DICOM_RESCALE and AFNI_DICOM_WINDOW
DICOM image files can contain rescaling and windowing "tags". If present, these values indicate to affinely modify the values stored in the file. As far as I can tell, "rescale" means that the values should always be modified, whereas "window" means the values should be modified for display purposes. If both are present, the rescale comes before window. These two YES/NO environment variables control whether the AFNI image input functions (used in to3d) should apply the rescale and window tags. It is my impression from the laconic, terse, and opaque DICOM manual that window tags are intended for display purposes only, and that they aren't needed for signal processing. But you'll have to examine your own data to decide whether to use these options -- manufacturers seem to differ. Plus, I don't have that much experience with DICOM data from many different sources.
AFNI_DICOM_VERBOSE
Set this YES/NO variable to YES to output extra details when reading DICOM images.
AFNI_DICOM_USE_LAST_ELEMENT
Set this YES/NO variable to YES to force the DICOM reading routines to set each DICOM element based on the last occurrence, not necessarily the first.
IDCODE_PREFIX
AFNI stores with each dataset a unique string, called an "idcode". An example is "XYZ_MoNLqdNOwMNEYmKSBytfJg". You can alter the first three characters of the idcode with this variable. For example, setenv IDCODE_PREFIX RWC sets the first 3 characters of newly generated idcodes to be the initials of AFNI's author. I find this a handy way to "brand" my datasets. Of course, there are only 17576 possible 3 letter combinations (140608 if you allow for case), so you should claim your prefix soon!!! Idcodes are used to store links between datasets. For example, when SUMA sends a surface to AFNI, it identifies the dataset to which the surface is to be associated with the dataset's idcode. Similarly, when AFNI sends a color overlay to SUMA, it uses the surface idcode to indicate which surface family the overlay is to be mapped onto.
AFNI_AGIF_DELAY
This is the time delay between frames when writing an animated GIF file from an image viewer window. The units are 100ths of seconds (centi-seconds!); the default value is 20 (= 5 frames per second). Note that this value is NOT editable in the Edit Environment control panel, so you have to set it up prior to starting AFNI (e.g., by using an option like '-DAFNI_AGIF_DELAY=10' on the command line when starting AFNI).
AFNI_MPEG_FRAMERATE
This value sets the frame rate (per second) of the MPEG-1 output animation from the image viewer window. The legal values allowed by MPEG-1 are 24, 25, 30, 50, and 60; 24 (the slowest) is the default. Note that the MPEG-1 standard does NOT allow arbitrary framerates, only these listed. To further slow down an MPEG-1 animation in AFNI, use the AFNI_ANIM_DUP variable, described below.
AFNI_ANIM_DUP (editable)
This value sets the frame duplication factor for AGIF or MPEG animation output. If this value 'd' is between 1 and 99, then each frame (image) will be written out 'd' times before being incorporated into the movie file. Note that AFNI_AGIF_DELAY can be used to slow down an AGIF file more efficiently, but that there is no other way (within AFNI) to slow down an MPEG file. (Some MPEG movie players will let you slow down the animation, but that's outside of AFNI's control.) You can control this variable directly from the Edit Environment control panel, or set its internal value in AFNI (or other image viewers) from the right-click popup menu attached to the intensity grayscale bar just to the right of the image sub-window in the viewer. Note that the duplication factor must be greater than 1 for any slowdown to occur. For example, if you want 6 frames per second in an MPEG file, then a duplication factor of 4 would work (24 fps / 4 = 6 fps). For MPEG-1 files, AFNI will set up the frame temporal encoding pattern so that there is very little .mpg file size overhead for this frame duplication. The same is NOT true for animated GIF files, since these files do not have any compression along the time axis. Therefore, you should use AFNI_AGIF_DELAY to control the frame rate of animated GIF files, and not this frame duplication factor.
AFNI_STARTUP_SOUND
If this variable is set to YES, then when the AFNI GUI starts, a pair of notes will be played (softly). For this to happen, it is also necessary that a) the 'sox' sound software package be installed b) that the X11 display is local, not remote c) that no '-com' options are on the command line You can also try using the 'Play startup sound' button on the right-click popup menu attached to the logo space to the right of the GUI 'done' button. For that button to work, conditions a) and b) above must be true. On a Mac, you can install 'sox' using the 'brew' package (e.g.).
AFNI_SOUND_PLAYER
The 'p' and 'P' keys in the AFNI graph viewer can be used to generate sound from the graph data time series. However, AFNI itself does not play sound - it uses an external player program. By default, AFNI can use any one of these programs: play (part of sox) ; afplay (Mac) ; mplayer ; aplay (Linux) and it will search your path to find one of these (in that order). If you have some other player program you want to use, you can provide the full path to that program in this variable, as in '/usr/bin/afplay'.
AFNI_MUSIC_SIZE
This variable is the length of the random music sequence generated by the 'Play random music' button. The default value is 99; if you want it to be longer, increase this value. There are about 7 notes per seconds normally, so setting this value to 420 is about 1 minute. Music can only be played if a sound player program is installed on your computer, as described under AFNI_SOUND_PLAYER above.
AFNI_STARTUP_SCRIPT
If this is set, this is the name of an AFNI Script to run when AFNI first starts. (See the file README.driver for information about AFNI Scripts.) If this is not set, it defaults to ".afni.startup_script". The program first tries to read this filename from the current working directory; if that fails, then it tries to read from your home directory. No error message is given if neither file can be read. You can save a file ".afni.startup_script" that will recreate the window layout you currently have. Use the "Datamode->Misc->Save Layout" button and press "Set" on the popup control without entering any filename. Instead of a Layout file (cf. AFNI_LAYOUT_FILE above), you'll get a Script file if you leave the filename blank or enter any filename with the string "script" included (e.g., "coolstuff.script"). The capabilities of Script files are expanded from time to time. Not all features of the AFNI window setup are currently save-able this way. You can load a Script file interactively during an AFNI run by using the button "Datamode->Misc->Run Script". As a 'secret' option, if you enter a line containing a blank in the filename dialog, that line will be executed as a single command, rather than be used as a script filename.
AFNI_DEFAULT_OPACITY
This should be set to an integer from 1..9, and controls the default opacity setting for the color overlay in image viewer windows.
AFNI_DEFAULT_IMSAVE
This should be set to the suffix of the image format to which you want to save from an image viewer. The suffixes AFNI knows about (as of 23 Jan 2003) are ppm = Portable PixMap format = cat jpg = Joint Photographics Experts Group (JPEG) format = cjpeg gif = Compuserve Graphics Interchange File (GIF) format = ppmtogif tif = Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) = ppm2tiff or pnmtotiff bmp = Windows Bitmap (BMP) format = ppmtobmp eps = Encapsulated PostScript format = pnmtops pdf = Portable Document Format = epstopdf png = Portable Network Graphics format = pnmtopng The third column is the name of the external filter program that AFNI uses to write the format. If a filter is not present on your system, then that option is not available. Most of these filters are part of the netpbm package, which can be installed on MacOS X by using the brew package (for example).
AFNI_IMSAVE_WARNINGS
If this variable is not set, then if the program cannot find one of the output filter programs listed above, then a warning message will be printed to the terminal. However, if you set this variable to NO, then such warning messages will NOT be printed out. The purpose of this variable is to let you silence these messages once you get sick of seeing them.
AFNI_IMSAVE_DEBUG
If this variable is set to YES, then when you save an image from the image viewer, the various steps will be printed to the terminal as the process happens. As the variable name is implied, this capability is here for debugging, and has not actually been used for years (at least by the AFNI Imperial Command Team).
AFNI_COLORSCALE_xx for xx=01, 02, …, 99
These variables let you name files to be read it at AFNI startup to define "continuous" colorscales for the "**" mode of the color pbar. These files will be looked for in the current directory when you start AFNI, or in your home directory (if they aren't in the current directory). A sample file: Yellow-Red-Blue 1.0 #ffff00 0.7 #ffaa00 0.5 #ff0000 0.3 #aa00aa 0.0 #0000ff The first line is the name of this colorscale, to go in the colorscale popup chooser. The succeeding lines each have a number and a color definition. The numbers should be decreasing, and indicate the location on the colorscale. The largest number corresponds to the top of the colorscale and the smallest to the bottom - intermediate numbers denote intermediate locations. The colors at each location are specified using X11 notation (cf. "man XParseColor"). In this example, I'm using hexadecimal colors, in the form #rrggbb, where each hex pair ranges from 00 to ff. Another color format is "rgbi:rf/gf/bf", where each value rf,gf,bf is a number between 0.0 and 1.0 (inclusive); for example, yellow would be "rgbi:1.0/1.0/0.0". Colors are interpolated (linearly in RGB space) between the break locations given in the file. There are actually 128 color locations on a colorscale. An alternative format for the file is to omit the numbers indicating the break locations. In this case, the break locations will be taken to be equally spaced. For example: Yellow-Red-Blue #ffff00 #ffaa00 #ff0000 #aa00aa #0000ff This example is not exactly the same as the other one, since the breakpoints are evenly spaced now (as if they had been given as 1.0, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25, and 0.0). With this format, if you want to manually specify all 128 colors, you can do so, 1 color per line, remembering that the first line of the file is taken to be the colorscale title (no blanks allowed in the title!).
AFNI_COLORSCALE_DEFAULT
If set, this is the name of the default colorscale to use in setup. As a special case, if you DO NOT want a colorscale to be setup by default at all, then set this variable to the string "NO". N.B.: This variable only applies if you are using AFNI with a TrueColor X11 visual. If you are using a PseudoColor visual, then this variable is ignored!
AFNI_RESCAN_METHOD
On 28 Dec 2002, I modified the way that the "Rescan" operation in AFNI works when re-reading datasets from sessions. The old way would purge and replace all datasets; the new way just adds datasets that didn't exist before. There are some differences between these methods: "Replace" will detect changes to a dataset, so if you add a brick using 3dTcat -glueto (for example), this will be reflected in AFNI. "Replace" will cause troubles if you are using a dataset in a plugin; the two main examples are volume rendering and the drawing plugin. This problem will occur even if you didn't do anything to the dataset on disk, since the internal pointer to the dataset will have been changed by the rescan, but the plugins won't know that. "Add" will not detect changes to a dataset on disk, but it also won't affect the pointers to the existing datasets. You can choose to use the "Replace" method (the old style) by setting this environment variable to the string "REPLACE".
AFNI_OLD_PPMTOBMP
The old (before 21 Feb 2003) usage of netpbm program "ppmtobmp" was to write a color image quantized to 255 colors. The new usage is to write a 24-bit image, which is thus not color-quantized. If you want the old behavior, set this environment variable to YES. This setting (YES) will be necessary if you have an older version of ppmtobmp in your path, which doesn't support the "-bpp" option.
AFNI_1DPLOT_COLOR_xx
This variable lets you set the colors used in the 1dplot program (and other similar graphs). Here, "xx" is a number from "01" to "19". The value of the environment variable must be in the form "rgbi:rf/gf/bf", where each color intensity (rf, gf, bf) is a number between 0.0 and 1.0. For example, "rgbi:1.0/1.0/0.0" is yellow. By default, the first 4 colors are defined as the equivalents of setenv AFNI_1DPLOT_COLOR_01 rgbi:0.0/0.0/0.0 setenv AFNI_1DPLOT_COLOR_02 rgbi:0.9/0.0/0.0 setenv AFNI_1DPLOT_COLOR_03 rgbi:0.0/0.7/0.0 setenv AFNI_1DPLOT_COLOR_04 rgbi:0.0/0.0/0.9 which are black, red, green, and blue, respectively. You can alter these colors, or leave them unchanged and start defining colors at 05. The largest color number you define will be the last color index used; if more line colors are needed, they will cycle back to color 01. If you leave a gap in the numbering (e.g., you define color 07 but not 05 or 06), then the undefined colors will be fuliginous. [Dec 2007] You can now specify the colors by using the special names 'green', 'red', 'blue', 'gold', 'pink', and 'purple'. Also, by using 3 or 6 digit hexadecimal notation as in '#8888aa' for a blueish-gray color (6 digits) or '#0ac' for a cyanish color (3 digits). These are intended to make life a little simpler.
AFNI_1DPLOT_THIK (editable)
This numeric variable lets you control the thickness of lines drawn in the 1dplot-style windows. The units are in terms of the width of the entire plot, so that a value of 0.005 is 'reasonable'; 0.01 will be fairly thick lines, and 0.02 will be too thick for most purposes.
AFNI_1DPLOT_IMSIZE
This numeric variable sets the image size (in pixels across the screen) of images saved via the '-png' or '-jpg' options of 1dplot, or images saved when giving the '.png' or '.jpg' from 1dplot-style graphs. The default value is 1024. Values over 2048 may give odd looking results, and will be palpably slower to render.
AFNI_1DPLOT_BOXSIZE
This variable sets the size of the boxes that are plotted with the 1dplot '-box' option. The units are in terms of the width of the entire plot; a value of 0.006 is the default. The largest allowed value is 0.02 and the smallest is 0.001.
AFNI_1DPLOT_RENDEROLD
On 30 Apr 2012, a new method of rendering the 1dplot graph into an X11 window was introduced -- this method uses 'anti-aliasing' to produce smoother lines and characters. If you want the old coarser-looking rendering method, set this variable to YES.
AFNI_1DPLOT_RANBOX
When using '-noline' in 1dplot (to get a cloud of points without lines), and when there are multiple time series being plotted with option '-one', the normal state of affairs is that later time series boxes get plotted on top of earlier boxes. If there are a lot of points, then the earlier boxes get completely obscured. Setting this variable to YES means that the boxes will be plotted in a pseudo-random order, so that each color/shape of box has a chance to be seen in the cloud of data.
AFNI_SIEMENS_INTERLEAVE
The old (pre-DICOM) Siemens .ima image mosaic format sometimes stores the multi-slice EPI data in correct spatial order and sometimes in correct time acquisition order. In the latter case, the images are stored in a spatially-interleaved fashion. As far as I know, there is no way to tell this from the .ima file header itself. Therefore, if you have a problem with such files, set this variable to YES to un-interleave the images when to3d reads them. One way to tell if the images need to be un-interleaved is to do afni -im fred.ima then look at the images in an Axial image viewer. If the slices make up a single coherent volume, then they are NOT interleaved. If the slices look like they make up 2 separate brain volumes, then they need to be un-interleaved, and you need to set this variable to YES.
AFNI_TRY_DICOM_LAST
When to3d tries to read an image file, it guesses the format from the filename. However, this doesn't always work. In particular, DICOM files don't have any fixed filename suffix or prefix. If all else fails, to3d normally tries to read a file as a DICOM file, and as a last resort, as a flat binary file. However, if a file is NOT a DICOM file, the DICOM reading function will print out a lot of error messages, since there is also no standard internal marker in all DICOM files that identify them. Most people don't like all these messages (perhaps hundreds per file), even if the program then successfully reads their flat binary files. If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the normal last-resort order of reading described above is reversed. If to3d can't read the file any other way, it will try it as a flat binary file. If that fails, then DICOM will be the ultimate resort, instead of being the penultimate resort that it is by default. This may help elide some error messages. However, if you have a DICOM file that is exactly 131072 bytes long (for example), then it will be interpreted as a headerless 256x256 image of shorts, instead of whatever it really is. So only set this variable to YES if necessary!
AFNI_THRESH_BIGSTEP
The AFNI threshold sliders (in the Define Overlay control panels and the Render Dataset plugins) are divided into 10000 steps from bottom to top. If you click in the trough or use the PageUp/PageDown keys, the default action is to move the slider 10 of the steps at once. (The up and down arrow keys move 1 step at a time.) You can change this big step from the default of 10 to any value between 1 and 1000 by setting this environment variable; for example setenv AFNI_THRESH_BIGSTEP 100 will move the slider 1% of its height per PageUp/PageDown key or mouse click.
AFNI_THRESH_AUTO (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then whenever you switch overlay datasets, the function threshold slider will automatically change to some value that MIGHT be appropriate for the values in the new dataset. [This is for Ziad!]
AFNI_THRESH_TOP_EXPON
This variable defines the maximum value for the '**' setting underneath the Overlay threshold slider. By default, this value is 5, but you can change that to 4 or 6 with this variable. [This is for Phil Kohn]
AFNI_THRESH_INIT_EXPON
This variable defines the initial power-of-ten scale for the '**' setting. By default, this value is 1 (thresholds run from 0 to 10), but you can change this to a value from 0 to 'TOP_EXPON'.
AFNI_OLD_SHORT_THRESH
When thresholding a dataset with a sub-brick that is stored as shorts (16 bit integers), the AFNI GUI uses floats, but the 3dmerge and Clusterize functions use shorts. The difference is that the user-supplied threshold in the latter case is rounded to the nearest short. Thus, a threshold of 2.2 would become 2, and then a value of 2 would pass the 'greater than or equal to threshold' test -- which is probably not what the user meant. Again, this would happen in 3dmerge and Clusterize, but NOT in the AFNI GUI without Clusterize. This inconsistency has been fixed, and both sets of places now threshold using floats. However, IF you want to stick with the old method for some grotesquely un-imaginable reason, you need to set this variable to YES.
AFNI_SNAPFILE_PREFIX
Image files saved with the "snapfile" (or "record to file") by default have filenames of the form "S_000001.ppm". The prefix "S" can be altered by setting this environment variable; for example, setenv AFNI_SNAPFILE_PREFIX Elvis will save snapfiles with names like "Elvis_000666.ppm". You can view snapfiles with the "aiv" ("AFNI Image Viewer") utility, the "xv" program, or many other Unix utilities.
AFNI_STARTUP_WARNINGS
When the interactive AFNI program starts, it may pop up warnings about the programming environment for which it was compiled. At this time, there are two such warning messages possible: LessTiff: AFNI will work with LessTif, but works better with Motif. Button-3: On Solaris 2.8, Button-3 popup menus don't work quite properly. If you are tired of seeing these messages, set AFNI_STARTUP_WARNINGS to NO.
AFNI_1D_TIME
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when a multicolumn .1D file is read in as an AFNI dataset, the column variable is taken to be time, and a time-dependent dataset is created. The default is to create a bucket dataset. Note that each row is taken to be a separate 'voxel'.
AFNI_1D_TRANOUT
If this variable is set to YES, it affects the way 1D datasets are written out from 3d* programs that are being used to process 1D files as AFNI dataset. If this variable is YES, AND if the output dataset prefix ends in '.1D' or is the string '-' (meaning standard output), then the output 1D file will be transposed and written so that the time axis goes down the columns instead of across them. If this variable is NO, then the standard AFNI 1D-to-3D dataset convention is followed: each row is a single voxel time series. Example: 3dDetrend -polort 1 -prefix - 1D:'3 4 5 4 3'\' will write to the screen -0.8 0.2 1.2 0.2 -0.8 if AFNI_1D_TRANOUT is YES, but will write -0.8 0.2 1.2 0.2 -0.8 to stdout if AFNI_1D_TRANOUT is NO.
AFNI_1D_TIME_TR
If this is set, and AFNI_1D_TIME is YES, then this determines the TR (in seconds) of a .1D file read in as an AFNI dataset.
AFNI_1D_ZERO_TEXT
If this is set to 'YES', then non-commented text gets set to 0 instead of causing a read failure. The default setting is 'No'
AFNI_3D_BINARY
If this is set to YES, then .3D files are written by AFNI programs in binary, rather than the default text mode. Binary files will be more compact (usually) and faster to read in.
AFNI_MAX_OPTMENU (editable)
This variable (default=255) sets the maximum number of entries allowed in an AFNI "option menu" -- these are the buttons that popup a menu of values from which to choose, and which also let you popup a text list chooser by right-clicking in the menu's label. (Example: the sub-brick option menus "Anat", "Func", "Thr" on the "Define Overlay" control panel.) Some computer systems may crash when an option menu gets too big. That's why there is a default limit in AFNI of 255 entries. However, if you have a bucket dataset with more than 255 sub-bricks, this makes it impossible to view the later data volumes. If this problem arises, you can try setting this environment variable to a larger limit (e.g., 99999 would take care of all currently imaginable cases).
AFNI_VALUE_LABEL_DTABLE
This variable sets a filename that holds a default value-label table for the Draw Dataset plugin. A sample file is shown below: <VALUE_LABEL_DTABLE ni_type="2*String" ni_dimen="3" > "1" "elvis" "2" "presley" "3" "memphis" </VALUE_LABEL_DTABLE> The 'ni_dimen' attribute is the number of value-label pairs; in the above example it is 3. Each value-label pair is shown on a separate line. The values and labels are strings, enclosed in quote characters. There should be exactly as many value-label pairs as specified in 'ni_dimen'. If you really want to put a double quote character " in a label, you can enclose the label in single forward quotes ' instead. When you 'Save' a drawn dataset from the Draw Dataset plugin, the .HEAD file attribute VALUE_LABEL_DTABLE will contain a table in exactly this XML-based format.
AFNI_STROKE_THRESHOLD (editable)
If you press Button-1 in an image window, and then move it left or right ("stroke it") before releasing the button, the grayscale mapping changes in the same way as if you pressed the 'c' button up and the 'b' button down. This variable sets the threshold for the stroking movement size in pixels; a movement of this number of pixels rightwards corresponds to one press of 'c' up and 'b' down, while a leftwards movement is like one press of 'c' down and 'b' up. Larger movements make larger adjustments. A larger threshold makes the stroking less sensitive; a smaller threshold makes it more sensitive. The value you choose will depend on your personal taste. The default is 32 pixels, which is the flavor I prefer. If you set this variable to 0, then the stroking function is disabled.
AFNI_STROKE_AUTOPLOT (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then the graymap-versus-data value plot (manually controlled by "Display Graymap Plot") is automatically popped up when the grayscale mapping is altered by using the stroking feature described above. When the stroke is finished, the plot will pop down. N.B.: when the 'Draw Dataset' plugin is active, this option is disabled temporarily.
AFNI_IMAGE_MINTOMAX (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then image viewer windows will be set to the "Min-to-Max" state rather than the default "2%-to-98%" state when they are opened. If you set this in the "Edit Environment" control, it only affects image viewer windows opened after that point.
AFNI_IMAGE_CLIPPED (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then image viewer windows will be set to the "Clipped" state rather than the default "2%-to-98%" state when they are opened. If you set this in the "Edit Environment" control, it only affects image viewer windows opened after that point.
AFNI_IMAGE_CLIPBOT (editable)
In the "Clipped" mode, the top level of the grayscale image is computed as 3.11 times the 'cliplevel' as computed by the 3dClipLevel algorithm. The bottom level is then a fraction of this top level -- by default, the fraction is 0.25, but you can change this default by setting this variable to a value between 0.0 and 0.5 (inclusive). You can also use variable AFNI_IMAGE_CLIPTOP to scale the default top level -- this variable can take values between 0.6 and 1.9 (inclusive) -- the default is 1.0.
AFNI_IMAGE_GLOBALRANGE (editable)
AFNI_IMAGE_GLOBALRANGE can be set to SLICE (default), VOLUME (SUBBRICK), or DSET. The GUI applies the lookup table to color the underlay with the range determined from the slice, sub-brick or the whole multi-sub-brick dataset,respectively, depending on this variable. Besides the .afnirc file, the GUI allows changes from the environment plugin menu, the right-click menu on the image viewer colorbar or by typing Control-m in an image viewer. The Control-m cycles among the global range types. Previous YES/NO definitions for this variable correspond to VOLUME and SLICE respectively and will continue to work as before. The lower right corner of the image viewer shows the current range setting: (2%-98%/Min2Max, Vol, Dset) If this variable is set to YES/VOLUME/SUBBRICK, then the image viewer windows will be set to scale the bottom gray level to the minimum value in the 3D volume and the top gray level to the maximum value in the 3D volume. Setting the variable to DSET similarly sets the minimum and maximum based on the range of the whole dataset. This setting overrides the "Min-to-Max" and "2%-to-98%" settings in the "Disp" control panel. This setting also applies to all image viewers. If you set this in the "Edit Environment" control, it will apply to all open image viewers immediately, as well as to any image viewers opened later. It is important to realize that if you use the 'Display Range' popup to set the bot-top range for the grayscale, these settings will override the global range UNTIL you switch datasets or switch sub-bricks within a dataset. At that point, the global range for the new volume will be enforced. This change can be confusing. Therefore, the info label beneath the slider shows the source of the bot-top grayscale values: [2%-98%] = from the 2% to 98% points on the slice histogram [Min2Max] = from the 0% to 100% points on the slice histogram [Vol] = set from the entire volume min and max values [Dset] = set from the min and max across all subbricks of a dataset [User] = set by the user from 'Display Range' absent = not applicable (e.g., underlay image is RGB) The popup 'hint' for the grayscale bar shows the current values of the bot-top range, if you want to know what numbers correspond to the image at which you are gazing so fondly. Finally, note that when a montage is built, the number-to-grayscale algorithm is applied to each slice separately, and then the montage is assembled. For [2%-98%] and [Min2Max], this fact means that each slice will (probably) have a separate grayscale conversion range.
AFNI_DRAW_UNDOSIZE (editable)
This variable sets the size (in units of Megabytes) of the Undo/Redo buffer in the Draw Dataset plugin. The default value is 6. If you are short on memory, you could set this to 1. If you are running out of undo levels, you could set this to a larger value; however, this would only be needed if you are drawing huge 3D swaths of data at a time (e.g., using the 3D sphere option with a large radius).
AFNI_DRAW_THRESH
This variable controls the clipping threshold for converting atlas regions into ROIs in the Draw Dataset plugin. The default value is 49 percent unless set by this variable as a percentage greater than 0.0 and at most 100.0 percent
AFNI_SPEECH (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then the AFNI speech synthesis is disabled. At the current time (Nov 2003), only the Mac OS X 10.3 version of AFNI uses speech synthesis in any way. And that's just for fun.
AFNI_IMAGE_ZEROCOLOR
This variable, if set to the string name of one of the colors in the color chooser menus (e.g., "Black"), will result in voxels whose value is 0 being set to this color in the slice viewing windows (except when viewing RGB images). The main function is to avoid having to use the "Choose Zero Color" menu all the time, especially when you use the "Swap" feature to invert the grayscale map (e.g., to make a T2 weighted image look sort of like a T1 weighted image).
AFNI_MPEG_DATASETS
This variable can be used to allow MPEG files to be read in as AFNI datasets. Such datasets are inherently 3 dimensional. How they will be organized inside AFNI depends on the setting of this variable. The options are: SPACE = the frame sequence number will be the z-axis TIME = the frame sequence number will be the time axis NO = MPEG files won't be read as AFNI datasets (they can still be read as images into to3d, aiv, etc.) If this variable is NOT set to anything, then it is the same as NO. MPEG filenames input to AFNI programs (as sources of images or as datasets) must end in ".mpg", ".MPG", ".mpeg", or ".MPEG". MPEG datasets will be read so that the individual images are displayed in an Axial image window. Note that decoding a long .mpg file that happens to be in your directory can slow down the AFNI startup considerably!
AFNI_MPEG_GRAYIZE
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then MPEG files read into AFNI, to3d, or aiv will be converted to grayscale, even if the images in the movie are in color.
AFNI_VIDEO_DELAY (editable)
This is the number of milliseconds the AFNI waits between drawing new images when the 'V' or 'v' keys are pressed in an image (or graph) window. The default value is 1, which is faster than video can be displayed anyway. Set this to a larger value (e.g, 100) to slow down the image redraw rate.
AFNI_IMAGE_ENTROPY (editable)
If this numeric variable is set, this is the entropy of an image below which the 2%-98% image scaling will be disabled, and min-to-max will be used instead. The units are bits/byte; a useful threshold seems to be in the range (0.2,0.5). For images that only have a few values different from 0, the 2%-98% scaling can produce weird artifacts. Such images will also have a very low entropy. Since this variable can be changed interactively from the Edit Environment controls, you can play with it to see how it affects your images.
AFNI_LOGO16 (etc.)
If this variable is set to YES, then the 'AFNI' background logo used in the controller and image windows will be enabled. By default, it is off. You can control the colors of this logo by the following variables: AFNI_LOGO16_FOREGROUND_x AFNI_LOGO16_BACKGROUND_x where 'x' is 'A', 'B', 'C', etc., for the various controller labels. If AFNI_LOGO16_BACKGROUND_x isn't set, then AFNI_LOGO16_BACKGROUND (with no suffix) is checked as an alternate. The values of these variables should be the names of one of the labels on the color chooser menus (e.g., the "Xhairs Color" menu). You can use these variables to make the windows for the various controllers somewhat distinct in appearance. If these color variables are not set at all, then AFNI uses some colors of my choosing for this purpose.
AFNI_COLORIZE_CONTROLLER
If this variable is set to YES, then the background of the AFNI controllers and image viewers will be colorized. The default state is that they are not colorized.
AFNI_THRESH_LOCK (editable)
This variable can be used to lock the Define Overlay threshold sliders together. There are three possibilities: NO (the default) => each controller's slider is independent VALUE => the numerical value on each slider will be the same P-VALUE => the p-value for each slider will be the same This locking only applies to AFNI controllers that are Lock-ed together (cf. AFNI_ALWAYS_LOCK and the Define Datamode->Lock menu). If p-values are locked, this lock will also only apply to controllers whose current Threshold sub-brick has a known statistical distribution. When you drag a locked threshold slider, the other one will only change when you release the mouse button -- they won't slide in tandem, but will just jump to the final value.
AFNI_PBAR_LOCK (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then the Define Overlay color bars (the "pbars") of AFNI controllers that are Lock-ed together will be coordinated. Changes to one locked pbar will be reflected in the others immediately.
AFNI_PBAR_AUTO (or AFNI_CMAP_AUTO)
If this variable is set to NO, then the automatic color bar switching (that was introduced by Ziad Saad) will be turned off.
AFNI_PBAR_THREE
If this variable is set to YES, then the 'continuous' colorscale color bar in the AFNI GUI will have 3 panes rather than 1. The middle pane will have the continuously variable colorscale loaded. The upper and lower panes will have the upper and lower colors loaded, OR they can be turned off. The sashes that controls the position and size of the middle pane can be moved to separately set the top and bottom of the color-ization scale (rather than make bottom = -top or bottom = 0, as with the 1 pane color bar).
AFNI_PBAR_TICK (editable)
If this variable is set to NO, then the tick marks in the continuous colorscale bar in the AFNI GUI will not have tick marks added on the left and right edges. You can also set the number of tick marks this way, if you don't want the default number (9). The maximum number of tick marks allowed is 63, which should be enough. * If this variable is NOT set to NO (or 0), then 9 tick marks will be drawn in the image window intensity bar as well (dividing it into 10 intervals). For this bar, the number of tick marks is fixed: it is either 0 or 9.
AFNI_PBAR_FULLRANGE [03 Jun 2014]
If this variable is set to YES, then the color pbar in Define Overlay will reflect the range set by the user for the colorization process. At some point, this feature will become the default, and then you'll have to set this variable to NO to get the old behavior -- where the range set by the user is shown only at the bottom right of the Define Overlay panel, and it then multiplies the independently set top value of the pbar to get the colorization scale. In the new method, the top value of the pbar cannot be set by the user independently of the range (or autorange) parameter. The intention of this change is to make the number -> colors process somewhat more blatant. This variable's value must be set at startup (e.g., in .afnirc), and changing it later will have no effect. Also note that if this variable is YES, then setting AFNI_PBAR_LOCK to YES will imply AFNI_RANGE_LOCK is YES as well.
AFNI_RANGE_LOCK (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then the OLay range values of different AFNI controllers that are Lock-ed together will be coordinated. Changes in one controller will be reflected in the others immediately.
AFNI_OPACITY_LOCK
This variable controls if changing the overlay opacity in one image viewer window (the 1-9 arrows at the viewer right edge) changes the opacity in all viewer windows. The default value is YES, but you can set this to NO if you don't like it.
AFNI_IMAGE_ZOOM_NN (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then image viewer windows will use nearest neighbor interpolation for zooming. The default is linear interpolation, which produces smoother-looking images. However, some people want to see the actual data values represented in the window, not some fancy-schmancy interpolated values designed to look good but in fact making a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham of reality.
AFNI_DISABLE_CURSORS
If this variable is set to YES, then AFNI will not try to change the X11 cursor shape. This feature is available because it seems that sometimes particular X11 installations choices of cursor and AFNI's choices don't work together well. If you have unpleasant cursors in AFNI (e.g., an X), try setting this variable to YES.
AFNI_SLAVE_FUNCTIME (editable)
When the underlay and overlay datasets both are time-dependent, switching the time index will change both the underlay and overlay sub-bricks. If you want the time index control to change ONLY the underlay sub-brick, then set this variable to NO.
AFNI_SLAVE_THROLAY
This variable allows you to control the INITIAL setting of the widgets that slave (or not) the threshold index to the overlay index. (These widgets are on the 'Index' right-click popup chooser and on the threshold slider right-click popup menu.) The values you can set for this variable, and their effects, are listed below (not case sensitive): 'OLay' *or* '==' *or* '0' ==> threshold index = overlay index 'OLay+1' *or* '+1' *or* '1' ==> threshold index = overlay index + 1 ANYTHING ELSE ==> threshold index is free and wild This variable replaces the 2 variables listed below. Again, this only controls the INITIAL setting of the widgets -- you can change them in the AFNI GUI later at any time. Setting this variable after AFNI starts (e.g., from plugout_drive) will have little discernible effect.
AFNI_FUNC_ALPHA
Setting this string to YES will turn on Alpha fading of the functional overlay -- it is the same as setting the 'A' button on top of the threshold slider to the on stated. If Alpha is turned on, then the opacity of the overlay ranges from 1 for above-threshold pixels down to 0. Note that the alpha (opacity) level at the pixel-wise level also is scaled by the global opacity '1-9' control on the right side of the image viewer, where '9' means that above-threshold pixels will be 100% opaque, and '6' means they will be 6/9=67% opaque -- and lower opacity pixels will be have their opacity scaled down by the same factor. The variable-opacity overlay usually looks better (less blocky) if you open 'Define Datamode' and set the resampling modes for the OLay and Stat to 'Li' (linear) rather than the default 'NN' (you can also do this via variables AFNI_resam_func and AFNI_resam_thr). Please note that the Alpha features described above only apply if the color scale is in the 'continuous' mode ('**'), not in the discrete panes mode. Sorry about this, but that's the situation for the nonce.
AFNI_FUNC_BOXED
Setting this string to YES will turn on outlining/boxing for the above threshold pixels in a functional image overlay. The outline is done over the pixels immediately OUTSIDE the above-threshold regions, in the overlay image as interpolated to the underlay resolution. If the underlay is on a coarse matrix (e.g., native EPI), these outlines will look blocky -- you can alter the underlay display grid dimension in 'Define Datamode' using the control 'Warp ULay on Demand', and then alter the way the datasets are interpolated to the underlay grid using 'Resam Mode' menus. In this way, you can make blocky-looking EPI results fictionally look as if they are beautiful and high resolution.
AFNI_FUNC_BOXED_COLOR (editable)
Defines the color used for the boxed outline of above threshold regions, when Boxed ('B' button above threshold slided) is turned on. See AFNI_FUNC_BOXED for more information. The default color is black, which a few people find harsh. This variable replaces the former AFNI_EDGIZE_COLOR, which now has no effect. Colors can be set via X11 names (e.g., "yellow", "hotpink", "#1188ff").
AFNI_SLAVE_THRTIME * THIS VARIABLE IS NO LONGER USED *
When the underlay and overlay datasets both are time-dependent, switching the time index will change both the underlay and overlay sub-bricks, but NOT the threshold sub-brick. If you want the time index control to change the threshold sub-brick, then set this variable to YES.
AFNI_SLAVE_BUCKETS_TOO * THIS VARIABLE IS NO LONGER USED *
Set this to YES if you want to make changing the time index in the underlay dataset change the sub-brick index in the overlay dataset even when the overlay is a 'bucket' dataset without a time axis.
AFNI_CLICK_MESSAGE
If this variable is set to NO, then the string [---------------] [ Click in Text ] [ to Pop Down!! ] will NOT be appended to the very first popup message window that AFNI creates. This message was added because some people do not realize that the way to get rid of these popups (before they vanish on their own after 30 seconds) is to click in them. You know who you are. However, if you are advanced enough to read this file, then you probably aren't one of THEM.
AFNI_X11_REDECORATE (editable)
By default, AFNI tries to change some of the "decorations" (control buttons) on some of the windows it creates (e.g., removing resize handles). If you don't want this to happen, set this variable to NO. This variable only has an effect on windows created AFTER it is set, so if you change this interactively in the Edit Environment plugin, it will not affect existing windows. Normally, you would want to set this in your .afnirc file.
AFNI_IMAGE_SAVESQUARE
YES/NO: Forces images (from the image view "Save" button) to be saved with square pixels, even if they are stored with nonsquare pixels.
AFNI_BUCKET_LABELSIZE
THIS VARIABLE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM AFNI. Formerly, it was used to set the width of the "ULay", "OLay", and "Thr" menu choosers on the "Define Overlay" control panel. As of 03 May 2005, AFNI now calculates the default width based on the longest sub-brick label input for each dataset.
AFNI_MAX_1DSIZE
Sets the maximum size (in bytes) of each 1D file that will be automatically loaded when AFNI starts. The default is 123 Kbytes. The intention is to prevent loading of very large files that are not intended to be used for graphing/FIMming purposes. If you set this to 0, you get the default size. If you set this to 1, no 1D files will be read at the AFNI GUI startup.
AFNI_TITLE_LABEL2 (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is YES, then the AFNI window titlebars will show the 'label2' field from the AFNI dataset .HEAD file, rather than the dataset filename. If the label2 field is set to a nontrivial value, that is. You can set the label2 field with the 3drefit command.
AFNI_SKIP_ONETIME_POPUPS
Some AFNI popup messages are 'onetime' -- that is, they show up only once for each user. This capability is there to announce changes that should be noticed. Each onetime message is logged into a file named .afni.recordings in the user's home directory, and if a record of such a message is found therein, it will not be shown again. To skip showing these messages at all, even once, set this variable to YES.
AFNI_SHOW_SURF_POPUPS
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when AFNI receives surface nodes, triangles or normals from suma, a popup message will be displayed. Otherwise, the message will be send to stderr (on the terminal window).
AFNI_KILL_SURF_POPUPS
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when AFNI receives surface nodes, triangles or normals from suma, no messages will be displayed, either in a popup or stderr. Note that if errors occur, popups will still be shown; this just turns off the normal information messages. N.B.: If AFNI_SHOW_SURF_POPUPS is YES, then it wins over AFNI_KILL_SURF_POPUPS being YES. If neither is set, then messages are displayed to stderr.
AFNI_EDGIZE_OVERLAY ** This variable is no longer used **
It has been replaced by AFNI_FUNC_BOXED.
AFNI_NIFTI_DEBUG (editable)
This integral variable determines the debug level used by the nifti_io library functions. If set to 0, only errors are reported by the library. The maximum debug level used is currently 4. Note that if this is changed from within AFNI, a 'Rescan: This' operation should probably be performed, which will force a re-reading of the datasets and so force an elicitation of the NIfTI debug messages (for .nii files, that is).
AFNI_NIFTI_TYPE_WARN
AFNI converts 'byte' NIFTI data types to 'short', and 'int' to 'float'. Programs that do so will issue a warning each time such a conversion is carried out. When this variable is set to NO, as it is now by default, each program would issue just one warning at the first occurrence of a type conversion. Set this variable to YES if you want to see all conversion warnings.
AFNI_DEBUG_PLUG_VOL2SURF
Use this integer variable to initialize the debug level in plug_vol2surf. The current set of acceptable values is {0..5}.
AFNI_NIFTI_NOEXT
When writing a '.nii' (or '.nii.gz') file from an AFNI program, normally a NIfTI-1.1 extension field with some extra AFNI header information is written into the output file. If you set this variable to YES, then this extension is not written, which will make the output be a 'pure' NIfTI-1.1 file. Only use this if absolutely necessary. You can also use the 'nifti_tool' program to strip extension data from a NIfTI-1.1 dataset file.
AFNI_OVERLAY_ZERO (editable)
If set to YES, this variable indicates that voxels in the overlay dataset that have the numerical value of 0 will get colored when the Inten color scale on the Define Datamode panel indicates that 0 has a color that isn't "none". The default way that AFNI works is NOT to colorize voxels that are 0, even if they should otherwise get a color.
NIML_TRUSTHOST_xx
These environment variables ('xx' = '01', '02', ..., '99') set the names and/or addresses of external computer hosts to trust with NIML TCP/IP connections, which are how AFNI and SUMA communicate. Should only be necessary to use these if you are using AFNI and SUMA on different machines. Connections from machines not on the trusted list will be rejected, for the sake of security. The 'localhost' or 127.0.0.1 address and local class B network 192.168.0.* addresses are always trusted.
AFNI_DONT_LOGFILE
Most AFNI programs write a copy of their command line to a file in your home directory named ".afni.log". If you do NOT want the log to be kept, set this environment variable to YES. The purpose of the log is for you to be able to look back and see what AFNI commands you used in the past. However, if you are doing a vast number of commands inside a script, the log file might eventually become gigantic (the Kevin Murphy effect).
AFNI_ECHO_COMMANDLINE
If this is YES, then the command line logger will also echo the command line of each AFNI program to stderr, as it starts up. This feature is explicitly for Daniel Handwerker, and may well eventually be considered his ultimate claim to fame in the Macrocosmic All.
AFNI_WRITE_NIML
If this variable is set to YES, then AFNI .HEAD files will be written in the new NIML (XML subset) format, rather than the 'classic' format. The volumetric image data is still in the pure binary .BRIK file, not XML-ified in any way. At present (Jun 2005) this format is experimental, but will someday soon become the default.
AFNI_ALLOW_MILLISECONDS
The TR value (time step) in 3D+time datasets created with to3d can be flagged as being in units of milliseconds (ms) or seconds (s). This situation is unfortunate, as some AFNI programs assume that the units are always s, which doesn't work well when the TR is actually in ms. On 15 Aug 2005, AFNI dataset I/O was modified to only write out TR in s units, and to convert ms units to s units on input. If you absolutely need to store TR in ms, then you must set this environment variable to YES. I strongly recommend against such a setting, but recall the AFNI philosophy: "provide mechanism, not policy" -- in other words, if you want to shoot yourself in the foot, go right ahead. This variable is just the safety on the revolver.
AFNI_AUTO_RESCAN
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the interactive AFNI program will rescan all session directories every 15 seconds for new datasets. Basically, this is just a way for you to avoid pressing the 'Rescan' buttons. Note that if AFNI_AUTO_RESCAN is enabled, then the rescan method will be 'Add', not 'Replace', no matter what you set variable AFNI_RESCAN_METHOD to.
AFNI_RESCAN_AT_SWITCH
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the interactive AFNI program will rescan all session directories every time you click on either of the 'Overlay' or 'Underlay' buttons. Basically, this is just another way for you to avoid pressing the 'Rescan' buttons. (Unlike with AFNI_AUTO_RESCAN, the AFNI_RESCAN_METHOD settings are respected.)
AFNI_ALL_DATASETS [02 Jun 2016]
By default, AFNI creates a session (internal to the program) that contains all the input datasets -- if you input more than one session directory, that is. This session is called 'All_Datasets' in the 'DataDir Switch' popup chooser, and should be the last session listed in that list. If you do NOT want this session created, then set AFNI_ALL_DATASETS to NO.
AFNI_WEB_BROWSER
This variable should be set to the full executable path to a Web browser, as in setenv AFNI_WEB_BROWSER /usr/bin/mozilla If it is not set, AFNI will scan your path to see if it can find a browser, looking for "firefox", "mozilla", "netscape", and "opera" (in that order). If a browser is found, or set, then the 'hidden' popup menu (in the blank square to the right of the 'done' button) will have a menu item to open it.
AFNI_SELENIUM
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the Selenium webdriver will be used to open a browser window in the places where AFNI uses webpages (whereami_afni, help,...) The AFNI_WEB_BROWSER should be set to the browser of choice (Chrome,Firefox,Safari). The default browser will be chrome if the AFNI_WEB_BROWSER variable is not set. If AFNI_SELENIUM is not set or set to NO, AFNI will open the standard browser using a system command. Selenium may be installed with "pip install -U selenium" on a Mac or "sudo yum install selenium" on Linux. If you need to get pip, it is available from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip .
AFNI_WEB_DOWNLOADER
This variable should be set to the full executable path to a Web downloader, as in setenv AFNI_WEB_DOWNLOADER /usr/bin/curl If it is not set, AFNI will scan your path to see if it can find a downloader, looking for "curl" and "wget" (in that order).
AFNI_JPEG_COMPRESS
This variable determines the compression quality of JPEG files saved in the AFNI GUI and 3dDeconvolve. Its value can be set to an integer from 1 to 100. If not set, the default value is 95%.
AFNI_NLFIM_METHOD
Can be used to set the optimization method using in the NLfit plugin (not in 3dNLfim). The methods available are SIMPLEX (the default) POWELL (the NEWUOA method) BOTH (use both methods, choose the 'best' result)
AFNI_OVERLAY_ONTOP
If this variable is set to YES, then the 'Overlay' button will be above the 'Underlay' button on the AFNI control panel. The default, from the olden days, is to have the 'Underlay' button above the 'Overlay' button, which some people find confusing.
AFNI_DATASET_BROWSE (editable)
If this variable is set to YES, then when you 'browse' through a dataset chooser ('Overlay' or 'Underlay' list) with the mouse or arrow keys, then as a dataset is selected in the list, AFNI will immediately switch to viewing that dataset. This can be convenient for scrolling through datasets, but can also consume memory and CPU time very quickly.
AFNI_DISABLE_TEAROFF
If this variable is set to YES, then the AFNI GUI will not allow popup or popdown menus to be 'torn off'. The default is to enable tear off for most menus, but this may cause bad things on some platforms (like program death).
AFNI_PLUGOUT_TCP_BASE (BETTER USE AFNI_PORT_OFFSET)
This integer will override the base TCP port used by afni to listen for plugouts. This allows multiple instances of afni on one machine, where each can listen for plugouts. Valid port numbers are 1024..65535.
AFNI_PORT_OFFSET
This integer provides an offset for the range of port numbers used by AFNI and its ilk. This allows multiple instances of communicating programs on one machine. Valid port offset numbers are 1024..65000. See related options -np in afni -help. See also AFNI_PORT_BLOC.
AFNI_PORT_BLOC
This integer selects a bloc of port numbers to be used by AFNI and its ilk. Much like AFNI_PORT_OFFSET, it allows multiple instances of communicating programs on one machine. However it is easier to use. Acceptable integer values range from 0 to a couple of thousands. See related option -npb, -max_port_bloc in afni -help. This environment variable takes precedence over AFNI_PORT_OFFSET.
AFNI_IMAGE_TICK_DIV_IN_MM (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the Tick Div. value in an image window will be interpreted as a separation distance, in mm, as opposed to the number of tick divisions along each edge. In the YES case, a larger value would produce fewer ticks, as they would be farther apart. In the NO case, a larger value will produce more tick marks. Tick marks are controlled from the Button 3 popup menu attached to the grayscale intensity bar in an image viewer.
AFNI_IMAGRA_CLOSER
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when you click in an 'Image' or 'Graph' button for a viewer window that is already open (so the button is displayed in inverted colors), then the corresponding viewer window will close. The default action is to try to raise the viewer window to the front, but some window managers (I'm looking at you, FC5) don't allow this action. So this provides a way to kill the window, at least, if you've lost it in desktop hell somewhere.
AFNI_DECONFLICT
When AFNI programs write datasets to disk, they will check whether the output filename already exists. If it does, the AFNI programs will act based on the possible values of AFNI_DECONFLICT as follows: NO/<none> : do not modify the name or overwrite the file, but inform the user of the conflict, and exit YES : modify the filename, as stated below OVERWRITE : do not modify the filename, overwrite the dataset If AFNI_DECONFLICT is YES, then the filename will be changed to one that does not conflict with any existing file. For example 'fred+orig' could be changed to 'fred_AA1+orig'. The default behavior is as 'NO', not to deconflict, but to exit. Some programs supply their own default.
AFNI_GUI_WRITE_AS_DECONFLICT
When you use the 'Write' buttons under 'Define Datamode' Panel, the default is to overwrite existing datasets. However, if AFNI_GUI_WRITE_AS_DECONFLICT is set to YES, then the decision follows the value of AFNI_DECONFLICT The default value for this variable is NO, which means interactive 'Write' operates in overwrite mode.
AFNI_SEE_OVERLAY
If this variable is set to YES, then the 'See Overlay' button will be turned on when a new AFNI controller is opened.
AFNI_INDEX_SCROLLREV
If this variable is set to YES, then the default direction of image slice and time index scrolling will be reversed in the image and graph viewers, respectively.
AFNI_CLUSTER_PREFIX
This variable sets the prefix for 'Save' timeseries 1D files from the 'Clusterize' report panel. The default string is "Clust". The value of this variable will be loaded into the cluster Rpt window text entry field, and the prefix can be edited there by the users when it comes time to save files.
AFNI_CLUSTER_SCROLL
If this variable is NO, then the 'Clusterize' report will not be given scrollbars. The default is to give it scroll bars (i.e., YES).
AFNI_CLUSTER_EBAR
If this variable is YES, then the Clusterize 'Mean' and 'Medn' Plot graphs will have error bars plotted.
AFNI_CLUSTER_REPMAX (editable)
This numeric variable (between 10 and 9999, inclusive) sets the maximum number of clusters that will be reported in a 'Clusterize' report panel, if scroll bars are turned off by AFNI_CLUSTER_SCROLL. The default value is 15. If scroll bars are turned on, then the maximum number of clusters shown defaults to 999, but can be increased to 9999 if you are completely mad, or are named Shruti. If scroll bars are turned off, then you probably don't want to make this very big, since the report window would become taller than your monitor, and that would be hard to deal with.
AFNI_CLUSTER_WAMIMAX (editable)
This variable should be set to a number indicating the maximum number of clusters to get a 'whereami_afni' report when the 'WamI' button is pressed. Since the querying the diverse atlas datasets is slow, increasing this value much past its default value of 20 is not usually a good plan.
AFNI_CLUSTERIZE_OLD
As of Halloween 2018, the 'Clusterize' control panel in the AFNI GUI uses program 3dClusterize for outputting tables and masks. One good point of this program is that it can do bi-sided clustering, as the GUI does. The older program 3dclust cannot do this type of clustering. However, if for some bizarre deranged maniacal reason (e.g., testing) you want to use 3dclust for these reporting purposes, then set this variable to YES. Note that the internal clustering of the AFNI GUI does not use either program - the external program is used only for the purpose of mask saving. If you use bi-sided clustering, then to get the saved mask have the same results as the AFNI GUI, you should NOT set this variable to YES.
AFNI_STRLIST_INDEX
If this variable is set to NO, then the new [12 Oct 2007] 'Index' selector at the bottom of a string-list chooser (e.g., the 'Overlay' button popup window) will NOT be shown.
AFNI_HISTOG_MAXDSET
If this variable is set to a numeric value between 4 and 9 (inclusive), then the number of Source datasets in the 'Histogram: Multi' plugin will be set to this value. The default number of Source datasets is 3 -- this variable allows you to increase that setting.
AFNI_HISTOG_CUMULATIVE (editable)
This YES/NO variable lets you control if the 'Histogram: Multi' plugin plots the cumulative distribution as well as the density histogram. Mostly this was added to subserve the nefarious conspiracies of the dreaded Dr Cox, but if you find it useful ....
AFNI_SIGQUIT_DELAY
This numeric variable (between 1 and 30) sets the number of seconds AFNI will delay before exiting after a SIGQUIT signal is delivered to the process. The default delay is 5 seconds. If you deliver a SIGALRM signal, AFNI will exit immediately. If you don't know what Unix signals are, then don't pay any attention to this subject!
AFNI_NEVER_SAY_GOODBYE
If this variable is set to YES, then the AFNI 'goodbye' messages won't be printed when the program exits. For the grumpy people out there (you know who I'm talking about, don't you, Daniel?).
AFNI_NEWSESSION_SWITCH
If this variable is set to NO, then AFNI will not automatically switch to a new session after that session is read in using the 'Read Sess' button on the Datamode control panel.
AFNI_FLASH_VIEWSWITCH
If you switch sessions, underlay, or overlay, it can happen that the coordinate system might be forced to switch from +orig to +tlrc (for example) because there is no dataset to view in the +orig system. If you set this variable to YES, AFNI flashes the view switch buttons on and off a few times to let you know this is happening (this is the Adam Thomas feature). ** Formerly, this feature was on by default, but now you have ** ** to explicitly turn it on (this is the Ziad Saad fixup). **
AFNI_SHELL_GLOB
'Globbing' is the Unix jargon for filename wildcard expansion. AFNI programs do globbing at various points, using an adaptation of a function from the csh shell. This function has been reported to fail on Mac OS X Server 10.5 on network mounted directories. If you set this variable to YES, then globbing will instead be done using the shell directly (via popen and ls). You should only set this variable if you really need it, and understand the issue! [For Graham Wideman]
AFNI_GLOB_SELECTORS
If this variable is 'YES', then internal wildcard expansion (in AFNI programs that support this capability) will NOT use the '[]' , '{}' , or '<>' selectors. Note that '[]' is a standard shell wildcard, so using this variable will restrict your wildcard-ing. On the other hand, it lets you do something like 3dTcat -prefix ALL_rest0.nii -relabel -verb 'rest_*.nii[0]' which will create a dataset from the #0 sub-brick of every dataset that matches the wildcard 'rest_*.nii'.
AFNI_IGNORE_BRICK_FLTFAC
Under some very rare circumstances, you might want to ignore the brick scaling factors. Set this variable to YES to do so. WARNING: this is dangerous, so be sure to unset this variable when you are done. Sample usage: 3dBrickStat -DAFNI_IGNORE_BRICK_FLTFAC=YES -max fred+orig
AFNI_ALLOW_ARBITRARY_FILENAMES
Normally, AFNI checks output filenames for 'bad' characters, which are defined as control characters and ASCII characters that will cause trouble on the Unix command line ('*', '$', etc.). 'Bad' filenames will not be allowed by most AFNI programs. If, for some reason, you want to use such filenames, set this variable to YES. Don't blame me if you get into trouble with such filenames!
AFNI_INSTACORR_FDR (editable)
If you want AFNI's InstaCorr feature to compute the FDR curve for the on-the-fly correlation coefficient sub-brick created interactively, then set this variable to YES. Since the FDR computations are the slowest part of the operation, the default (if this variable is not YES) is that FDR curves are NOT computed.
AFNI_INSTACORR_SEEDBLUR
The InstaCorr controls let you use extra spatial smoothing when selecting the seed voxel time series. By default, this extra smoothing is a flat average over a sphere of the chosen radius: "SeedRad". However, if this environment variable is set to YES, then the extra smoothing is done by Gaussian blurring with the chosen FWHM: "SeedBlur". This variable cannot be set interactively, but can be set on the AFNI command line with the usual -DAFNI_INSTACORR_SEEDBLUR=YES method.
AFNI_INSTACORR_JUMP (editable)
When using the Shift+Ctrl+Click method to set the InstaCorr seed, the usual operation is to jump the crosshairs focus point to the location where the click happened, and then do the InstaCorr seed set. If you set this environment variable to NO (the default value is YES), then the crosshair jumping will not happen, but the seed will be set at the clicked point. One use case for this setting is when you have setup a Montage layout and don't want it to automatically jump to a new slice when you set the InstaCorr seed -- you like the layout of what you are seeing, and don't want it to change underneath you just because you are moving the seed location. [For Phil Kohn, Sep 2021]
AFNI_INSTACORR_XYZ_LPI
In 3dGroupInCorr's batch mode, the XYZ method of operation sets the seed coordinates using AFNI's standard RAI (DICOM) order. If you set this variable to YES, then the coordinates given will be interpreted as being in LPI (AKA 'neurological') order; that is, the given x and y values will be negated before being used inside 3dGroupInCorr to pick the seed voxel.
AFNI_BLUR_INTS_AS_OLD
As of 15 June 2009, the FIR (finite implulse response) method is applid to byte and short data. Previously, 3dmerge had used FIR only on float data, meaning shorts and floats would be applied via Fourier interpolation. Setting AFNI_BLUR_INTS_AS_OLD to YES will revert to the Fourier method for such data.
AFNI_IMAGE_CROPSTEP (editable)
Numeric value sets the size of the panning step using in the image viewer, when you are adjusting the cropping region using the Shift+Arrow keys on the keyboard. Defaults to 1. Legal values are -9..9 (inclusive). Positive values means pressing Shift+LeftArrow causes the image in the crop window to appear to move to the left; negative values cause the crop window to move in the opposite direction, so the visible part of the image appears to move to the right. (Mutatis mutandum for the other directions, of course.)
AFNI_IMAGE_COLORANGLE (editable) ** OBSOLETE **/
This value, a number between 90 and 360 (inclusive) describes the amount of the AJJ color circle used by the 'Colr' button in an AFNI image viewer. If no value is given, the default is 240. Changing this number to 360 means the color circle is continuous from top to bottom -- an effect that is obvious if you use the 'r' arrow buttons (on the right of the image viewer) to rotate the color circle. The default value of 240 is purely for historical reasons, dating back to the old FD program from Medieval Times.
AFNI_IMAGE_COLORSCALE
This variable defines the colorscale used by the 'Colr' button at the top right of the AFNI image viwer window to colorize the Underlay image -- the Overlay colorization is controlled from the colorscale on the 'Define Overlay' control pane. At this time [Oct 2019], only the following four color scales can be used for this purpose: magma plasma viridis googleturbo If you do not define AFNI_IMAGE_COLORSCALE, or you define it to something besides one of these names (case insensitive), then 'googleturbo' is used. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-colormap-for.html Note that the color scale can be modified somewhat by using the 'g' (gamma) arrow buttons on the right edge of the image viewer. It is possible to change this image viewer underlay colorscale by changing this environment variable interactively, using the driving feature of the AFNI GUI (e.g., program plugout_drive).
AFNI_IMAGE_SCROLLWHEEL_TMASK
This variable lets you control which keyboard modifier keys are checked when the mouse scroll wheel is used inside the image. If one (or more) of the selected keys is pressed while the scroll wheel is moved, then the AFNI controller 'Define Overlay' threshold slider moves -- otherwise (the normal case), the image slice slider moves. The value of this variable should be contain one or more of these strings (NOT case sensitive): Shift = Shift key pressed Ctrl or Control = Control key pressed Mod1 = Alt key pressed (Linux) Mod2 = Command key pressed (Mac) If you do NOT set this variable, it is like setting it to the value 'Mod1+Mod2' (so that Alt and Command work on Linux and Mac OS X, respectively). However, some Linux systems seem to always have the Mod2 mask set for the scroll wheel, and so the wheel ALWAYS change the threshold slider and not the slice. To prevent this sad thing from happening, set this variable to just 'Mod1'. Furthermore, if you include the string 'Debug' in this variable, when the scroll wheel is used over the image sub-window, some information will be printed out about what the program detects, which might help you set things up correctly. On my Mac, I get the following output when using the scroll wheel twice -- once with no key pressed and once with the Command key: ++ Scrollwheel (imag): button=5 ; state mask=0x + (mask: shift=1x ctrl=4x mod1=8x mod2=10x mod3=20x mod4=40x mod5=80x) + change slice ++ Scrollwheel (imag): button=5 ; state mask=10x + (mask: shift=1x ctrl=4x mod1=8x mod2=10x mod3=20x mod4=40x mod5=80x) + change threshold The second use shows that the 'state mask' (which shows the modifier keys) was hexadecimal '10x', which corresponds to the 'mod2' value.
AFNI_DUMMY_DATASET
The old 'frivolous' AFNI dummy dataset was replaced with a low-resolution edition of the N27 dataset on 12 Feb 2010. If for some absurd reason you want the old dummy dataset back, then set this variable to OLD. (Recall that the dummy dataset is only created if you start the AFNI GUI without any input datasets at all -- AFNI is so constructed that it needs SOME dataset present to be able to operate: hence, the dummy dataset concept.)
AFNI_DONT_COMMAIZE
When AFNI programs print out informative (and fun) messages about the size of files, memory space, etc., by default commas are inserted, as in "8,765,432". If you want these numbers printed as "8765432" (for whatever hideous and twisted reason), set this variable to YES.
AFNI_FILE_COORDS_x
If this variable is set (where 'x' is A, B, C, ...), then for AFNI controller 'x', whenever the crosshair viewpoint changes, the DICOM order (x,y,z) coordinates and the dataset 3D index (i,j,k) will be written to the file whose name is given by the value of this variable. As a special case, if the filename is 'stdout', then the coordinates are written to standard output. A sample command afni -DAFNI_FILE_COORDS_A=stdout If the file already exists when afni starts, it will be over-written; that is, it is opened in "w" mode. This feature may be referred to as the Jen Evans special.
AFNI_AUTORANGE_POWER – this variable is now obsolete
If this variable is set to a value between 0 and 1 (exclusive), then the functional overlay 'autoRange' value will be set to the largest value in the dataset raised to this power. By default, the autoRange value is computed as if this power is 1.
AFNI_AUTORANGE_PERC - experimental at this moment
If this variable is set to a value P between 2 and 99 (inclusive), then it indicates that the functional overlay 'autoRange' value will be set the P-th percentile point on the cumulative histogram of the absolute values of the nonzero entries in the Overlay dataset sub-brick being viewed. To be less confusing, if P=95 (for example), then the nonzero absolute values are tabulated into histogram bins from smallest (percentile=0) to largest (percentile=100), and the value at the 95th percentile will be chosen -- so that only 5 percent of the values in the dataset are larger than this autoRange value. The reason for doing this is to avoid allowing a few large values to distort the overlay color scale.
AFNI_IDEAL_COLORS (editable)
This variable, if set, allows you to specify the set of colors used for the FIM Ideal overlay in the graph viewer window. Separate color names by colons, as in "red:green:blue". The first column in the Ideal 1D file gets the first color; the second column gets the second color, and so on. The variable AFNI_ORT_COLORS can similarly be used to specify the colors for the FIM Ort overlay.
AFNI_DONT_USE_HTMLWIN
If this variable is set to NO, then the 'AFNI Tips' button will not use the HTML window to display the requested information -- a plain text window will be used. You should only need to use this variable if the AFNI Tips window crashes on your system.
AFNI_UNFONTIZE_HTML
If this variable is set to YES, then font-changing HTML tags will be deleted before opening the 'AFNI Tips' HTML window. Try this first to avoid crashes, before using the previous variable to turn off the HTML tips entirely.
AFNI_USE_FGETS
The function fgets() is the Unix standard for reading text lines from a file. However, it assumes that the text file lines end in the Unix standard end-of-line character (ASCII 0xA). Files created on Microsoft platforms use a different end-of-line character (ASCII 0xD). The result is that Microsoft-ized text files don't work well with fgets(). AFNI uses its own function, cleverly called afni_fgets(), to read text lines, to avoid this problem. However, this function is 4-5 times slower than the system fgets() function, so if speed if crucial -- as when reading a giant 1D file -- then set AFNI_USE_FGETS to YES to make AFNI programs use the system fgets() function. The best way to do this would be on the command line, as in the simple example below: 1dcat -DAFNI_USE_FGETS=YES bigfileA.1D bigfileB.1D > bigfileAB.1D In such an example, you won't see a 4-5 times speedup, since actually most of the time is spent decoding the text in the file into numbers and then writing them back out -- you'll probably see a speedup of about 1.2-1.4 instead -- not trivial, but not exhilarating.
AFNI_WSINC5_*
These variables affect the way the '3dAllineate -final wsinc5' windowed since interpolation option works. See the output of the command 3dAllineate -HELP for the details. You can control the width of the sinc window, the tapering function, and a couple of other useless options. ** N.B.: You can turn off the message that the wsinc5 code prints out detailing the parameter setup by setting AFNI_WSINC5_SILENT to YES.
AFNI_3dAllineate_final
The default '-final' option for 3dAllineate is 'cubic'. You can change this default to any other legitimate value, such as 'wsinc5' or 'NN'. This variable is provided to allow you to force the final interpolation mode into a script that doesn't allow any easy way to affect it, such as that generated by afni_proc.py.
AFNI_INDEX_STEP
This numeric variable (between 1 and 9, inclusive) sets the step size used when you press the up/down arrows on the 'Index' control in the left column of the main AFNI controller. Setting this value to 2 (say) let's you scroll through an image time series seeing alternate time points. This feature can be useful when looking at datasets where sub-bricks alternate in type -- for example, from 3dttest++, where the even-numbered volumes are effect size estimates, and the odd-numbered volumes are the corresponding t-statistics. (This value can also be set interactively from a popup chooser activated by right-clicking on the 'Index' label to the left of the up/down arrows.)
AFNI_SCATPLOT_LINES
The ScatterPlot plugin lets you graph the data in one sub-brick along the x-axis and the data in another sub-brick along the y-axis. It also computes some straight line y=ax+b fits to the graph. By default, it does 2 different fits, with least sum of squares (L2) and least sum of absolutes (L1) criteria. The L2 line is plotted in red (and thus corresponds to the Pearson R also shown in red), and the L1 line is plotted in blue (and corresponds to the Spearman rho shown in blue). With this variable, you can turn off the plotting of either or both of these lines, which are often very nearly the same. If the value of this variable contains the string 'NOL1', then the L1 line won't be shown, and if the value of this variable contains 'NOL2', then the L2 line won't be shown. Thus, if the value of this variable is 'NOL1+NOL2', neither line will be plotted.
AFNI_SCATPLOT_FRAC
This variable lets you choose the size of the boxes plotted in the ScatterPlot plugin. The units are fractions of the plot width, so the reasonable range for this value is 0.0 to 0.01 (not inclusive). If this variable is not set, or the value is outside of this range, then the size of the boxes is set based on the number of points being plotted. The only reason for using this variable is if you wish to create a sequence of scatterplots and ensure that the points plotted in different graphs have a uniform size of boxes.
AFNI_GIFTI_VERB
This integer sets the verbose level in the gifti I/O library routines. Level 1 is the default, 0 is "quiet", and values go up to 7.
AFNI_DATASETN_NMAX
This numeric variable, if set, lets you expand the number of dataset lines in the 'Dataset#N' plugin from the default of 9 up to a max of 49. (This one is for Shruti.)
AFNI_WRITE_1D_AS_PREFIX
If this variable is set to YES, then 1D formatted files will be written to the file based on the given prefix, rather than to an automatic 1D file. This allows writing surface files to NIfTI format, for example.
AFNI_PATH_SPACES_OK
If this variable is set to YES, dataset names with spaces in them will go through "normal" reading routines, rather than using THD_open_tcat() to try to combine multiple datasets.
AFNI_CREEPTO
If set to YES, then the AFNI GUI 'Jump to (xyz)' behavior is altered to move the crosshairs to the chosen location incrementally, rather than in one big jump. The reasons for using this feature are (a) to help get a feel for the transit, and (b) just plain fun.
AFNI_HISTORY_NAME
The value of this variable will alter the 'username@machine' listing in the history notes generated by AFNI programs. If this variable is NOT set, then your user login name and machine ID are put in the header; otherwise, the value of this string is used. You can set this string to the null string '' if you wish to hide your identity totally.
AFNI_INCLUDE_HISTORY
If this variable is set to YES, output datasets will have a HISTORY_NOTE which can be seen via 3dinfo, for example. If set to NO, output datasets will not have any HISTORY. This is one method for making datasets anonymous.
AFNI_XCLUSTSIM_GLOBAL and AFNI_XCLUSTSIM_LOCAL
These variables control the setting of the 'global' and 'local' ETAC calculations, and are equivalent to using the '-ETAC_global' and '-ETAC_local' command line switches to 3dttest++. If you set a variable to YES, then that commands the relevant ETAC thresholds to be calculated; if you set a variable to NO, it turns off the relevant calculation. If you do not set a variable, and you do not use the 3dttest++ command line option, you will get whatever the default ETAC method(s) are enabled.
AFNI_CLUSTSIM_MEGA
Set this variable to YES to force the use of the '-MEGA' option in 3dClustSim. The primary reason for this usage is to force '3dttest -Clustsim' to use '-MEGA' rather than the default '-LOTS'. ============================================= | Robert W Cox, PhD | | Scientific and Statistical Computing Core | | National Institute of Mental Health | | National Institutes of Health | | Department of Health & Human Services | | United States of America | | Earth, United Federation of Planets | | Alpha Quadrant, Milky Way Galaxy | | Local Group, Virgo Supercluster | =============================================
AFNI_LINKRBRAIN
If you do NOT want to see the 'linkRbrain' button in the Clusterize GUI, then set this variable to NO.
AFNI_LINKRBRAIN_SITE
This variable sets the name of the linkRbrain server to use. The default server is 'linkrbrain.eu'.
5.3.5. Vars for realtime functionality¶
AFNI_REALTIME_*
This set of variables allows you to control the initial setup of the realtime data acquisition plugin (menu item "RT Options"). Normally, this plugin is active only if AFNI is started with the "-rt" command line option. (It will consume CPU time continually as it polls for an incoming data connection, which is why you don't want it running by default.) The following variables can be used to initialize the plugin's options: AFNI_REALTIME_Activate = This is a YES/NO variable, and allows you to have the realtime plugin active without using the "-rt" command line option. If this variable is set to YES, then you can disable the realtime plugin with "-nort". The variables below are used to set the initial status of the widgets in the realtime plugin's control window. Each one has the same name as the labels in the control window, with blanks replaced by underscores. The values to set for these variables are exact copies of the inputs you would specify interactively (again, with blanks replaced by underscores). For details as to the meaning of these options, see the plugin's Help window. AFNI_REALTIME_Images_Only = "No" or "Yes" AFNI_REALTIME_Root = name for datasets to be created AFNI_REALTIME_Update = an integer from 0 to 19 AFNI_REALTIME_Function = "None" or "FIM" (cf. AFNI_FIM_IDEAL below) AFNI_REALTIME_Verbose = "No", "Yes", or "Very" AFNI_REALTIME_Registration = "None", "2D:_realtime", "2D:_at_end", "3D:_realtime", "3D:_at_end", or "3D:_estimate" AFNI_REALTIME_Resampling = "Cubic", "Quintic", "Heptic", "Fourier", or "Hept+Four" AFNI_REALTIME_Reg_Base_Mode= "Current_Run", "Current_Run_Keep", or "External_Dataset" AFNI_REALTIME_Base_Image = an integer from 0 to 9999 AFNI_REALTIME_Graph = "No", "Yes", or "Realtime" AFNI_REALTIME_NR = an integer from 5 to 9999 AFNI_REALTIME_YR = a floating point number from 0.1 to 10.0 AFNI_REALTIME_External_Dataset = name of dataset to use as external basis for registration * if this variable is set, then the plugin assumes that AFNI_REALTIME_Reg_Base_Mode is "External_Dataset" * but AFNI_REALTIME_Base_Image is ignored * instead, you can use a sub-brick selector here, if desired; for example: setenv AFNI_REALTIME_External_Dataset 'X+orig[3]' * to be brutally clear, you can give the name of a dataset that is NOT in the current directory -- unlike when using the plugin GUI * the plugin GUI will NOT show the choice of external dataset given via this environment variable! AFNI_REALTIME_Mask_Vals = String (one of the listed strings) This allows the user to set the "Vals to Send" field from the RT plugin's "Mask" line. It determines what data are sent to the remote MP program (e.g. serial_helper). Sending data requires '3D realtime registration'. Valid strings are: None - send nothing Motion_Only - send only the 6 registration parameters ROI_means - send mean EPI value per mask ROI (value) per TR (in addition to motion) All_Data - (heavy) send each voxel value (in mask) per TR (in addition to motion) All_Data_light - send each voxel value (in mask) per TR (no extras) ROIs_and_data - a mix of ROI_means and All_Data (light) (the "Javier special" method) 1. for non-1 ROIs, send ROI means 2. for ROI-1, send all voxel data (non-1 means come before ROI-1 data) AFNI_REALTIME_Mask_Dset = String (the name of a dataset) This option allows the user to set the Mask dataset, used to send ROI and motion data to a program listening at a socket. This environment variable overrides the variable set in the plugin interface, allowing it to change per run. Set the variable to None to either clear the mask or to allow the interface mask to apply. Note that this can be done via a drive afni command, allowing changes after afni is already running, e.g. plugout_drive -com 'SETENV AFNI_REALTIME_MASK_DSET None' -quit AFNI_REALTIME_WRITEMODE = Number This variable controls writing individual volumes as they are acquired by the realtime plugin. Valid Numbers and their effects are: 0 = Off : do nothing [default] 1 = Acquired : write each volume as it is acquired 2 = Registered : write each registered volume 3 = Merged : write each merged volume (merged across channels) N.B.: The following internal controls can only be set using these environment variables (there is no GUI to set these values): AFNI_REALTIME_volreg_maxite = an integer >= 1 [default = 9] AFNI_REALTIME_volreg_maxite_est = an integer >= 1 [default = 1] AFNI_REALTIME_volreg_graphgeom = something like 320x320+59+159 AFNI_REALTIME_reset_output_index = YES/NO By default, output files will be named with a prefix, PREFIX__NNN, where PREFIX is given by the AFNI_REALTIME_Root variable or the Root in the interface, and where NNN increments per run. If this variable is set to YES, then the plugin will try to use NNN=001 each run. AFNI_REALTIME_CHILDWAIT = max wait time (in sec) for child info process [default = 66.6]; not needed if child info process is not used AFNI_REALTIME_WRITEWAIT = if the image data pauses for this number of seconds, then the datasets being constructed will be written to disk [default=37.954]; since this output may take several seconds, you may need to adjust this if you are in fact doing imaging with a very long TR. Note that after this wait, the plugin can still receive image data -- even if the image source program is silent for a very long time, AFNI will still be waiting patiently for data. AFNI_GRAPH_AUTOGRID = By default, if the number of time points in an AFNI graph viewer changes, the density of vertical grid lines changes. If you don't want this to happen, set this variable to NO. AFNI_REALTIME_MP_HOST_PORT = HOST:PORT When this variable is set, the realtime plugin will attempt to open a tcp socket to the corresponding host and port, and will send the six registration correction parameters for each 3D volume received by the plugin. This applies only to the case of graphing 3D registration. The socket will be opened at the start of each run, and will be closed at the end. A simple example of what to set this variable to is localhost:53214. See 'serial_helper -help' for more details. AFNI_REALTIME_SEND_VER = Y/N If AFNI_REALTIME_MP_HOST_PORT is set, the RT plugin has 3 choices of what to send to that port (possibly to serial_helper): 0. the motion parameters 1. motion params, along with average EPI values over each ROI in the mask dataset (if set) 2. motion params, along with all voxel values over the mask dataset (including index, i,j,k and x,y,z values) If AFNI_REALTIME_SEND_VER is set to YES, then the plugin will offset the last byte of the communication HELLO string by the version number (0, 1 or 2). In the case of versions 1 or 2, the plugin will send the number of ROIs/voxels in a 4-byte int after the HELLO string. AFNI_REALTIME_SHOW_TIMES = Y/N If set, the RT plugin will output CPU times whenever motion parameters are sent to the remote program, allowing evaluation of timing. The times are modulo one hour, and are at a millisecond resolution. AFNI_REALTIME_MAX_CONTROLLERS = Number If set, this is the maximum number of controllers that AFNI will open for multi-channel acquisition display. If more channels than this are sent, only the first ones will be displayed. ** If this variable is not set, its value defaults to 2. AFNI_REALTIME_DATAMODE = Number If set, this variable controls the initial setting of the "DataWriting" control, where 0=Off, 1=Acquired, etc. If not set, the default value is 0. AFNI_REALTIME_CHMERMODE = Number If set, this variable controls the initial setting of the "ChannelMerge" control, where: 0=none, 1=sum, 2=L1 norm, 3=L2norm. 4=T2* est, 5=Opt Comb If not set, the default value is 0. AFNI_REALTIME_CM_REG_MODE = Number If set, this variable controls the ChannelMerge registration mode. Here: 0=none : no merge registration 1=reg_merge : register merged dastaset 2=reg_chan : apply merge xform to all channels The default is 0. AFNI_REALTIME_MRG_CHANLIST = String If set, this variable specifies a list of 0-based channels to merge, rather than using all channels. The format is akin to sub-brick selection. For example '0..$' means all and '0,5..7' means 0,5,6,7. For detailed information about how the realtime plugin works, read the file README.realtime. Also see "Dimon -help" (example E "for testing complete real-time system"). Also see "serial_helper -help". Also see program rtfeedme.c and "rtfeedme -help".
5.3.6. Vars specific to NIML I/O¶
AFNI_NIML_DEBUG
This integer sets the debugging level in some niml I/O routines, particularly those in thd_niml.c. Currently used values range from 0 to 3.
AFNI_NSD_ADD_NODES
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then when a NI_SURF_DSET dataset is written to disk, if it has no node list attribute, a default list will be created.
AFNI_NSD_TO_FLOAT
If this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then any necessary conversion of NI_SURF_DSET datasets to type float will be blocked. Otherwise, all such datasets will be written as float.
AFNI_NIML_TEXT_DATA
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then NI_SURF_DSET datasets will be written with data in text format. Otherwise, data will be in binary.
AFNI_SIMPLE_HISTORY
A few programs (particularly 3dcalc) create a complicated history note in the output dataset header, by including the history of all inputs. This history can become inordinately long and pointless when 3calc is run in a long chain of calculations. Setting this variable to YES will turn off this cumulation of all histories, and may make your dataset headers more manageable.
AFNI_NIML_BUFSIZE or NIML_BUFSIZE
This variable sets the number of bytes used as a memory buffer for NIML dataset input. If you are inputting gigantic headers or gigantic String data components (I'm looking at YOU, Ziad), then you may want to increase this past its default size of 255*1024=261120.
5.3.7. Vars for 3dDeconvolve¶
AFNI_INDEX_PREFIX
3dDeconvolve and 3dREMLfit create statistics datasets that have sub-brick labels of the form 'NAME#0_Coef', where 'NAME' is the task name set up when running the program. This environment variable lets you replace '#' character with another character; for example (in tcsh): setenv AFNI_INDEX_PREFIX _ which will create labels of the form 'NAME_0_Coef' instead. The single character value you supply must be a printable character - not a space, not a control character, and not the '~' character (which is special). Please note that in the future, the default '#' may be replaced by some other character in the AFNI setup. When that happens, datasets created after that date will not be exactly compatible (as far as the sub-brick labels) with datasets created earlier. The purpose of this environment variable is to allow you to make these programs backward compatible, if necessary. [11 Jul 2019]
AFNI_3dDeconvolve_GOFORIT
If this variable is set to YES, then 3dDeconvolve behaves as if you used the '-GOFORIT' option on the command line -- that is, it will continue to run even if it detects serious non-fatal problems with the problem setup.
AFNI_3dDeconvolve_NIML
3dDeconvolve outputs the regression matrix 'X' into a file formatted in the 'NIML' .1D format -- with an XML-style header in '#' comments at the start of the file. If you DON'T want this format, just plain numbers, set this variable to NO.
AFNI_3dDeconvolve_extend
If you input a stimulus time series (via the -stim_file option) to 3dDeconvolve that is shorter than needed for the regression analysis, the program will normally print a warning message and extend the time series with zero values to the needed length. If you would rather have the program stop if it detects this problem (the behavior before 22 Oct 2003), then set this environment variable to NO.
AFNI_3dDeconvolve_nodup
If this variable is set to YES, then if the 3dDeconvolve program detects duplicate input stimulus filenames or duplicate regressors, the program will fail (with an error message) rather than attempt to continue.
AFNI_3dDeconvolve_nodata_extras
When using the -nodata option in 3dDeconvolve, the default printout gives the 'normalized standard deviation' for each stimulus parameter. If you set this variable to YES, then the printout will include the -polort baseline parameters as well, and also the L2 norm of each column in the regression matrix.
AFNI_3dDeconvolve_oneline
3dDeconvolve outputs a command line for running the cognate 3dREMLfit program. By default, this command line is line broken with '\' characters for printing beauty. If you want this command line to be all on one physical output line, for convenience in automatic extraction (e.g., via grep), then set this variable to YES before running the program.
AFNI_3dDeconvolve_rawAM2
Normally, when you use the -stim_times_AM2 option, the regression against the covariates is 'centered' around the mean of the values given. If you want the regression to proceed directly with the covariate values as given, set this option to YES. Please do NOT do this unless you understand what this means!!!
AFNI_XJPEG_COLOR
Determines the color of the lines drawn between the column boxes in the output from the -xjpeg option to 3dDeconvolve. The color format is "rgbi:rf/gf/bf", where each value rf,gf,bf is a number between 0.0 and 1.0 (inclusive); for example, yellow would be "rgbi:1.0/1.0/0.0". As a special case, if this value is the string "none" or "NONE", then these lines will not be drawn.
AFNI_XJPEG_IMXY
This variable determines the size of the image saved when via the -xjpeg option to 3dDeconvolve. It should be in the format AxB, where 'A' is the number of pixels the image is to be wide (across the matrix rows) and 'B' is the number of pixels high (down the columns); for example: setenv AFNI_XJPEG_IMXY 768x1024 which means to set the x-size (horizontal) to 768 pixels and the y-size (vertical) to 1024 pixels. These values are the default, by the way. If the first value 'A' is negative and less than -1, its absolute value is the number of pixels across PER ROW. If the second value 'B' is negative, its absolute value is the number of pixels down PER ROW. (Usually there are many fewer columns than rows.)
AFNI_XSAVE_TEXT
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the .xsave file created by the "-xsave" option to 3dDeconvolve will be saved in text format. The default is a binary format, which preserves the full accuracy of the matrices stored therein. However, if you want to look at the .xsave file yourself, the binary format is hard to grok. Note that the two forms are not quite equivalent, since the binary format stores the exact matrices used internally in the program, whereas the ASCII format stores only a decimal approximation of these matrices.
AFNI_GLTSYM_PRINT
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then the GLT matrices generated in 3dDeconvolve by the "-gltsym" option will be printed to the screen when the program starts up.
AFNI_FLOATIZE
If this YES/NO variable is set to YES, then 3dDeconvolve and 3dcalc will write their outputs in floating point format (unless they are forced to do otherwise with the '-datum short' type of option). In the future, other programs may also be affected by this variable. Later [18 Nov 2008]: Now 3dANOVA, 3dANOVA2, and 3dANOVA3 will also use this flag to determine if their outputs should be written in float format. For example: 3dANOVA -DAFNI_FLOATIZE=YES ... other options ...
AFNI_AUTOMATIC_FDR
If this variable is set to NO, then the automatic computation of FDR curves into headers output by 3dDeconvolve, 3dANOVA, 3dttest, and 3dNLfim will NOT be done. Otherwise, the automatic FDR-ization of these datasets will performed when the datasets are written to disk. (You can always use '3drefit -addFDR' to add FDR curves to a dataset header, for those sub-bricks marked as statistical parameters.)
AFNI_DONT_ADJUST_FDR
If this variable is set to YES, then the adjustment of FDR q-values downwards by allowing for the estimate of the number of true negatives (e.g., as discussed by Storey, Benjamini, and others) will NOT be carried out. As of 26 Mar 2009, this adjustment of q-values is the default in AFNI programs. If you want the old behavior, set this variable to YES.
AFNI_NON_INDEPENDENT_FDR
If this variable is set to YES, then the FDR calculation is made using the non-independent assumption, as in the '-cdep' option for program 3dFDR. This setting will affect the calculation of FDR curves via program 3drefit, et cetera.
AFNI_SKIP_SATCHECK
If you want 3dDeconvolve to check the input dataset time series for initial saturation transients (a somewhat time consuming process), set this variable to NO. You can also use program 3dSatCheck for this purpose. Or just look at your data (please!).
5.3.8. ATLAS and WHEREAMI env variables¶
Note
These variables control how AFNI and whereami_afni make use of various atlases and template spaces. The variables may also affect how other AFNI programs use atlases as input datasets.
AFNI_ATLAS_LIST
This list contains the names of the atlases that should be queried when no specific atlas has been requested. For example, the afni GUI and whereami_afni, by default, do not load all the atlases specified in the AFNI_atlas_spaces.niml file. If this variable is not set, the TT_Daemon atlas and the cytoarchitectonic Eickhoff-Zilles in MNI_ANAT space are loaded. If the variable is set to a list like "TT_Daemon,DD_Desai_PM", then only these two atlases are loaded. The list of atlas names may be separated by commas or semicolons. A special case of "ALL" may be set, and all the available atlases will be loaded.
AFNI_TEMPLATE_SPACE_LIST
This list contains the names of the template spaces that are shown when whereami_afni reports the coordinates among various spaces. By default, the list contains "TLRC,MNI,MNI_ANAT". As with AFNI_ATLAS_LIST, this list may also be set to "ALL".
AFNI_ATLAS_COLORS (editable)
This variable sets which atlas to use in the AFNI GUI for "Atlas Colors", "Go to Atlas location", "Draw Dataset" and "Renderer" functions.
AFNI_JUMPTO_SPACE (editable)
This variable sets which space to use in the AFNI GUI for "Jump to (spacename)" function where this would default to "MNI". Choose a valid spacename from the current list of spaces in "whereami_afni -show_spaces". The jump function transforms the user input coordinates from that space to the space of the dataset.
AFNI_ATLAS_PATH
This variable sets which directory or directories to search for AFNI atlas datasets that have been defined in the AFNI_atlas_spaces.niml or CustomAtlases.niml file. For all afni programs and scripts that use atlas and template datasets, the program will preferentially use (in order) the file path included in the dataset filename definition, the AFNI_ATLAS_PATH, the AFNI_PLUGINPATH or the standard PATH values.
AFNI_PLUGINPATH
Described above, this variable is used for several purposes. For whereami_afni, this variable sets the directory to load atlases and NIML files if not in the current directory. If this variable does not exist or the referred file does not exist, then the atlas is searched in the user's current PATH setting. If this is set, atlases will be found more quickly than searching all the directories of the entire PATH. Searches of the PATH variable for whereami_afni usage stop at the first occurrence of the searched file, so placing the AFNI directory earlier in the PATH will dramatically increase the speed that the file is found.
AFNI_WHEREAMI_DEC_PLACES (editable)
Sets precision for whereami_afni output. Higher field data and animal atlases require higher precision. The default value used for focus point among template spaces is still 0 decimal places (closest mm), but animal data requires three decimal places. Value may range from 0 to 10.
AFNI_WAMI_DEBUG
This variable controls the output of detailed messages about various tasks involved in loading atlases, transformations and composing query results. By default, this information is not shown. This integer sets the debugging level in whereami_afni routines. Currently used values range from 0 to 3.
AFNI_TTATLAS_DATASET
This variable may also specify the default location of AFNI atlases. This variable is maintained mostly for backward compatibility. By default, this is not set.
AFNI_WHEREAMI_NO_WARN
Turns off warnings about various whereami_afni features - like queries that have reached their limit of returned results. By default, warnings are displayed only the first time a particular message is encountered.
AFNI_WHEREAMI_MAX_FIND (editable)
By default, only the first nine structures are displayed within a particular atlas. You may increase or decrease this to show more or fewer structures in the whereami_afni results.
AFNI_WHEREAMI_MAX_SEARCH_RAD (editable)
By default, whereami_afni searches a radius of 7.5 mm. Set a radius up to 9.5 mm.
AFNI_WHEREAMI_PROB_MIN
Minimum probability AFNI considers in probabilistic atlases
AFNI_DEFAULT_STD_SPACE
The default template space is assumed to be TLRC. This is used for coordinate input to whereami_afni, the whereami_afni GUI and for TLRC view datasets without a template space explicitly set in the dataset header.
AFNI_NIFTI_VIEW
The default view extension used for output when creating AFNI format datasets from NIFTI datasets. This variable is only applicable for sform and qform codes that do not have clearly defined views (sform/qform code = 2). Set to "tlrc" or "orig". See also AFNI_DEFAULT_STD_SPACE and AFNI_NIFTI_PRIORITY. Note sform/qform code=5 can be used for spaces other than MNI or TLRC including MNI_ANAT or D99 spaces. If unset, the default is 'orig'.
AFNI_NIFTI_PRIORITY
Sets preference for NIFTI files to use sform or qform codes and matrices to determine space, origin and orientation. Set to 'S' or 'Q' for sform or qform respectively. If not set, NIFTI files are read using the non-zero form code or the sform code if both are set.
AFNI_SUPP_ATLAS, AFNI_LOCAL_ATLAS
These variables allow the addition of more atlas definitions to the global list of atlases, templates, spaces and transformations. The variable should be set to the name of a NIML file with the same format of the AFNI_atlas_spaces.niml file. These can be customized by site (supplemental) or by subject (local) and follow the same search order as the AFNI_atlas_spaces.niml file. In order to be included in default searches, additional atlases or template spaces would also need to be added to AFNI_ATLAS_SPACE_LIST and the AFNI_TEMPLATE_SPACE_LIST, unless those are set to "ALL".
AFNI_SUPP_ATLAS_DIR
Allows the addition of atlas definitions to the global list of atlases, templates,spaces and transformations. The variable should be set to the name of a directory that contains a SessionAtlases.niml file with the same format as the AFNI_atlas_spaces.niml file. Also see AFNI_SUPP_ATLAS, AFNI_LOCAL_ATLAS, AFNI_ATLAS_SPACE_LIST, AFNI_TEMPLATE_SPACE_LIST.
AFNI_TTATLAS_CAUTION (editable)
If this YES/NO variable is set to NO, then the warning about the potential errors in the "Where am I?" popup will not appear. (This is purely for cosmetic purposes, Ziad.)
AFNI_TTATLAS_FONTSIZE (editable)
If this variable is not set, the default font size is used in the 'Where am I?' popup window. If this variable is set to 'BIG', then a larger font size is used.
AFNI_ATLAS_NAME_TYPE
Atlas region labels can be shown as either as a short name or with a longer, more descriptive name. Note that most atlases have only the short name available. The whereami_afni GUI and command line can show either or both labels with this variable set to "longname", "both" or "name", where "name" is only the short, standard version. The overlay panel and image viewers can show this label too. The names are separated by a vertical pipe symbol if both are in the atlas header. The default is to show both names if they are available.
AFNI_WEBBY_WAMI
When set to YES, the Where Am I GUI becomes 'web-enabled', i.e. the report becomes clickable to open web pages from the output. Most features are still experimental. See AFNI_NEUROSYNTH and AFNI_SUMSDB below for examples. The default value is 'NO'.
AFNI_NEUROSYNTH
When set to YES, provides link for MNI coordinate in Where Am I GUI to the Neurosynth site. Requires AFNI_WEBBY_WAMI to also be set to YES. The default value is 'NO'.
AFNI_SUMSDB
When set to YES, provides link for MNI coordinate in Where Am I GUI to the SumsDB site. Requires AFNI_WEBBY_WAMI to also be set to YES. The default value is 'NO'.
5.3.9. Interacting with other progs and miscellany¶
AFNI_NO_OPTION_HINT
If this variable is set, do NOT make suggestions if a program parsing error is encountered.
AFNI_GUI_EDITOR
Set this variable to your favorite GUI text editor.
AFNI_IMAGE_VIEWER
Set this variable to your favorite image viewer.
AFNI_PDF_VIEWER
Set this variable to your favorite pdf viewer.
AFNI_LOG_BEST_PROG_OPTION
If set to YES, allow approximate searching functions to log their behavior in a file named ~/.afni/help/aps.log.txt
AFNI_HISTDB_SCRIPT
If set to a non-empty string, an attribute called HISTDB_SCRIPT is added to the header of AFNI datasets at write time. The value of the attribute is that of the variable AFNI_HISTDB_SCRIPT. At the moment, this variable is solely for Tom Ross's nefarious history databasing schemes.
AFNI_ICORR_UBER_USER
If set to YES, enable distance measures that are not ready for prime time in the instacorr interface.
AFNI_SKIP_TCSV_SCAN
If set to YES, do not scan for CSV files at afni startup (default: not set, so effectively doing the scan), which is the same as using option -notcsv.
