HAS-Motion Software Documentation

The P2D file format was part of the original MOVE3D software written, which formed the basis of Visual3D. This file format can still be imported by Visual3D to provide backwards compatibility with legacy data at the NIH, to summarize a normal database, and for creating “odd-ball” graphics overlaid on report graphs.

P2D files are opened in Visual3D and stored in the GLOBAL folder of the Visual3D workspace as P2D signals. These signals retain the same format as the P2D files, and we treat the terms “P2D file” and “P2D signal” synonymously.

The original P2D files contains the mean and standard deviation components of a signal. In keeping with this tradition, the Global_Normalized_Signal_Mean command produces P2D signals as well.

Any laboratory can create a series of P2D files that represent their normative data. If the user opens all P2D files at once and saves a CMZ file, then the CMZ file will contain all of the P2D data signals in a single file.

The P2D file is a text file that contains a simple header and data section. The header (first) record of the P2D file contains three integers separated by a space. The first integer is the number of data entries (or rows), the second integer is the number of ordinate columns and the third integer is always zero. For example:

15 2 0

The columns of the output P2D files are separated by blank spaces. Each column is a component in the P2D signal and each column contains the same number of rows. For example, two frames of data are represented by two rows:

0 1
1 1.1

Taken together, we get the complete P2D file format:

15 2 0
1 0
2 15.3774
3 10.6582
4 6.2569
5 2.9658
6 1.0071
7 0.1427
8 -0.0545
9 0.0276
10 0.1536
11 0.2424
12 0.2803
13 0.2677
14 0.2041
15 0.1907

The File → Open menu option allows the user to open P2D data: a signal is created in Visual3D with the same name as the P2D file name on disk. When a P2D file is opened in Visual3D it is stored in the GLOBAL Workspace.

For a variety of historical and technical reasons, P2D data does not appear in the data tree. The only way to access P2D data is when you are generating a report graph by selecting the data type to be P2D. P2D data must be displayed against itself and a typical graph would have component 1 on the x-axis, component 2 on the y axis, and component 3 as the standard deviation.

A common use of the P2D format is for storing the mean and standard deviation data for one signal (e.g. from normative data). In the following example a P2D file containing time-normalized data (51 points) for the mean and standard deviation will appear as:

51 2 0
1.000000 -0.171476 0.064203
2.000000 -0.193810 0.052127
3.000000 -0.194081 0.107100
4.000000 -0.150445 0.121488
5.000000 -0.059907 0.087786
6.000000 0.042586 0.043269
7.000000 0.118689 0.035538
8.000000 0.156265 0.050328
9.000000 0.172037 0.062839
10.000000 0.183095 0.067463
11.000000 0.194891 0.070898
12.000000 0.204698 0.078152
13.000000 0.211091 0.088810
14.000000 0.215793 0.098449
15.000000 0.220938 0.103864
16.000000 0.225731 0.104650
17.000000 0.228312 0.102229
18.000000 0.228412 0.098830
19.000000 0.227623 0.095728
20.000000 0.227414 0.093014
21.000000 0.227485 0.089656
22.000000 0.226159 0.085224
23.000000 0.221815 0.080099
24.000000 0.215041 0.075135
25.000000 0.207752 0.070403
26.000000 0.201338 0.066043
27.000000 0.195480 0.061912
28.000000 0.189448 0.057273
29.000000 0.183203 0.051364
30.000000 0.176926 0.044302
31.000000 0.170491 0.037066
32.000000 0.163738 0.030801
33.000000 0.156836 0.026320
34.000000 0.150075 0.023576
35.000000 0.143514 0.022056
36.000000 0.137175 0.021138
37.000000 0.130963 0.020152
38.000000 0.124659 0.018674
39.000000 0.117935 0.016824
40.000000 0.110651 0.015405
41.000000 0.102797 0.015020
42.000000 0.094458 0.015891
43.000000 0.085670 0.017849
44.000000 0.076587 0.020574
45.000000 0.067596 0.023515
46.000000 0.059138 0.026223
47.000000 0.051278 0.028302
48.000000 0.043641 0.029549
49.000000 0.035876 0.029884
50.000000 0.028065 0.029869
51.000000 0.020488 0.030334