antsrSurf vs. renderSurfaceFunction?

[ptsii]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No

Describe the solution you'd like Just curious what the difference is between antsrSurf vs. renderSurfaceFunction... Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, but I haven't stumbled across a clear discussion of the two.. Is one an update of the other?

Describe alternatives you've considered Mango, but its old (latest version seems to be from 2019)

Additional context None

[stnava]

• antsrSurf just calls the VTK-enabled ANTs executable --- you would need to have compiled ANTs with VTK to have that ... but it produces very nice surface images eg

• renderSurfaceFunction uses native R to do similar things and makes pictures like this

so they have different functionality and I use one or the other depending on the task.

plot a color function on an inflated cortical surface? antsrSurf

plot a functional network / graph in a "glass" brain? renderSurfaceFunction or plotBasicNetwork -- same style