google / google/neuroglancer

Shader access for segment property values

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Description

Currently neuroglancer shaders do not have access to segment properties for skeletons. This prevents us from doing useful things like modulating the appearance of objects based on segment-level properties.

For example: adjusting the skeleton shader to show neurons in different colors based on a segment property, or changing the way an axons or dendrites are visualized based on a segment property.

Mesh shaders also do not have segment property access, so one cannot modulate the appearance of a mesh based on segment properties.

Separately, segment properties are not possible to set via a local json state, and so dynamic modulation of a visualization of individual segments is not possible beyond 'visible/not-visible'.

cc @fcollman, @pedson

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