
It is also assumed that recon-all has been run successfully. The script requires that FreeSurfer is installed and working properly, and that the environmental variable $ must point to the directory where the data for each subject is located.

Blender is an open source and cross-platform 3D designer and animator that provides you with a large number of tools with texturing, lighting, modeling and animation capabilities in a single simple to use and intuitive app bundle. The outputs are saved in a directory called ascii, inside each subject’s directory. Combined with hundreds of bug fixes, Blender 2.91 is more polished and stable than ever. Install the new version by overwriting the current Blender.app in the Applications folder. Updating with DMG When an update for Blender is released, it can be downloaded directly from the Blender website. This section covers the most common approach. Suppose you would like to create meshes for all subcortical structures of the subjects named “capitu”, “bentinho” and “ezequiel”. Tested with prerelease Safari 16.1 and latest stable versions of Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox at the time of testing on: 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M2 and prerelease macOS Ventura, and Intel Core i7-based PC systems with Intel Iris Xe Graphics and Windows 11 Pro iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation) units with prerelease. On macOS there are various ways of updating Blender. The surfaces can be generated using FreeSurfer’s own tools. Trying to install Blender on my Mac and I am being told that I cannot do it with my operating system (macOS 10.10.5).


Generating the surfaces for subcortical structures An example of a subcortical meshes generated from FreeSurfer subcortical segmentations imported into Blender.
