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[IV3D-USERS] [Announce] ImageVis3D 2.1.0 released!


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  • From: James Hughes <jhughes@sci.utah.edu>
  • To: iv3d-users@sci.utah.edu
  • Subject: [IV3D-USERS] [Announce] ImageVis3D 2.1.0 released!
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:32:34 -0600
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                             ImageVis3D 2.1.0
                            ==================

The ImageVis3D team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D
2.1.0!

ImageVis3D is a desktop volume rendering application which was designed
to visualize large data.  Support is available for multiple rendering
modes, such as 1D and 2D transfer functions, isosurface rendering,
as well as specialized modes such as MIP and slice views.  On modern
systems, ImageVis3D's GPU-accelerated rendering delivers incredible
performance, while compatibility options exist to allow ImageVis3D to
perform adequately on older systems.

ImageVis3D 2.1.0 is a major release, with a large set of new features.
Changes since 2.0.1 include:

New Features
------------

  * Added a new exporter which writes out a series of image files.

  * Support 'tag' volumes, which should not be interpolated.

  * Added the ability write out a clipped data set.

  * ImageVis3D will now attempt to identify when other software writes
    out 'tag' data sets, and quantize data more appropriately for that
    case.

  * Added a new importer for certain kinds of Amira files.

  * 3-component data is now considered to be RGB data, by default.

  * Added custom expressions to the Merge Datasets dialog.

Bugs fixed in this release
--------------------------

  * Fixed a bug where too many files were considered "Inveon" files.

  * Detect invalid BOV files and report something went wrong.

  * Fix conversion of color images on some platforms.

  * Convert raw data dialog no longer freezes on Mac OS X.

  * Max brick size is now correctly applied on Mac.

  * Fixed a crash in the 1D transfer function editor for some datasets.

  * Fixed a brick boundary issue.


Changes which are only of interest to developers
------------------------------------------------

  * Removed IO's dependence on the GPU memory manager, allowing it to
    be used indpendently.

Known issues with this release
------------------------------

  * The 'Stack' ("stk"), single-file TIFF volume, and Fraunhofer EZRT
    ("rek") file formats can only be read, not written.

  * The 'Brick Of Values' (BOV) reader does not support BOVs in which
    the data are split across multiple files.

  * RGB[A] are the only kinds of multicomponent data supported.

  * NVIDIA GPUs on Linux expose a driver issue which can hang the
    system for prolonged periods of time.  To workaround this issue, we
    recommend sticking with the slice based volume renderer Linux for
    this release.

  * Full-color data sets do not display a proper histogram in the
    transfer function editors.

  * In any mode but MIP, the `Recorder' always uses the highest resolution
    data, regardless of any other settings.

  * In the "Disable LOD" mode of MIP Recordings, progress information
    is not given.  Progress is being made; a visibly-correct rendering is
    not required to create an on-disk image which is visibly correct.

ImageVis3D 2.1.0 supports Intel Macs 10.6 and up (10.7.4 highly
recommended), Windows, and Linux.  Binaries are available at:


the nightly 'developer builds' site:


the 'sci' PPA on Launchpad (Linux only):


or you can get the source directly from our subversion repository,
using the 'svn' command:


or any other subversion client.

We look forward to your feedback!  Like us on facebook:


comment on our wall, or talk to us on this mailing list!

Cheers,

- The ImageVis3D team.

  • [IV3D-USERS] [Announce] ImageVis3D 2.1.0 released!, James Hughes, 07/12/2012

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