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The snippet in my original post is basically how you initialize MultiArrays. Just push_back() a new std_msgs::MultiArrayDimension for each dimension and set it up according to the docs @Lorenz referenced.

Using resize(n, std_msgs::MultiArrayDimension()) should also work.

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