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- From: tom fogal <tfogal@sci.utah.edu>
- To: iv3d-users@sci.utah.edu
- Subject: [IV3D-USERS] [ANNOUNCE] ImageVis3D 0.06b released
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:07:35 -0700
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ImageVis3D 0.06b
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The ImageVis3D team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D 0.06
beta!
While 0.06b is primarily a feature release, many bugs were fixed as
well. Changes since 0.05b include:
New Features
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* UI improvements. ImageVis3D now includes a welcome screen to let
users quickly access online help, or load their data with just a
single click. A 'Report' dialog was added to allow users to quickly
report issues to developers.
* A clipping plane was added to allow users to slice into their
data. Clipping planes use the same mouse controls as normal
volume interaction; hold the 'Control' key ('Command' on Macs) to
manipulate the clipping plane independent of the volume.
* Dataset merging. ImageVis3D's 'UVFConverter' can be used to merge
multiple datasets into one, so that it may render both as once.
* A coordinate cross has been added to prevent users from becoming
disoriented, especially when zoomed inside a dataset. Press 'c' to
enable / disable the cross.
* ImageVis3D can now update itself when it detects a new release.
* MIP rotations include an option to ignore LOD levels, using only
the maximum resolution of the dataset.
* Many of ImageVis3D's supported file formats can now be ''written''
as well. This allows one to utilize ImageVis3D as a data
conversion utility.
* ImageVis3D can now export an extracted isosurface as a mesh.
* Support for new file formats:
- 'Stack' format (''.stk'' files), as output by the Metamorph [1]_
software.
- 'TIFF Volumes', or a stack of images embedded into a single TIFF
file. In particular, this allows reading OME-TIFF [2]_ formatted
volumes.
Bugs fixed in this release
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* Quantization fixes for data which could not previously be loaded.
* Fixed a Mac-only bug in the capturing code, which prevented movie
generation.
* Many workarounds for UI issues that were present with the Mac build.
* Fixed a bug in the detection of the amount of memory on Linux
systems.
* Fixed a bug reading some NRRD files. ImageVis3D should now be able to
read NRRDs as exported by Seg3D.
* Fixed a bug in saving both TIFF and GIF image files.
Changes which are only of interest to developers
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* Large improvements to the capability and reliability of ImageVis3D's
'scripting' feature.
* Unsupported Mac PPC builds.
* Dynamically-linked Qt libraries work again.
* Debug messages are now simpler to add.
* An include path is used to obtain GLEW, allowing Tuvok to be more
easily embedded in other applications.
Known issues with this release
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* *Some* JPEG-based DICOMs can not be loaded by ImageVis3D.
* The visible portion of the clip plane can become disconnected from
the dataset, causing confusing interaction.
* The new 'Stack' and single-file TIFF volume file formats can only be
read, not written.
* Multicomponent data are not supported.
ImageVis3D 0.06b supports Intel Macs 10.4 and up, Windows, and Linux.
PPC Macs may run ImageVis3D but are not officially supported. Binaries
are available at::
http://software.sci.utah.edu/SCIdownload.php?item=imagevis3d
the nightly 'developer builds' site::
http://software.sci.utah.edu/devbuilds/imagevis3d/
or directly from the subversion repository at::
https://code.sci.utah.edu/svn/imagevis3d
We look forward to your feedback on this release. Best,
- The ImageVis3D team.
.. [1]
http://www.moleculardevices.com/pages/software/metamorph.html
.. [2]
http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/ome-tiff.html OME-TIFF
- [IV3D-USERS] [ANNOUNCE] ImageVis3D 0.06b released, tom fogal, 03/12/2009
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