v3d

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Last updated: Aug 11, 2011 Certified 100% CLEAN Freeware

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A Swiss army knife for bioimage visualization & analysis #Bioimage visualization #3D viewer #Bioimage analysis #Bioimage #Visualization #Analysis

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v3d is a handy and reliable application designed to enable you to explore and understand your 3D/4D/5D images a lot easier.

It also provides many unique functions, supports a very simple and powerful plugin interface and thus can be extended & enhanced easily.

It's a tool for visualizing large-scale (gigabytes, and 64-bit data) 3D image stacks and various surface data. It is also a container of powerful modules for 3D image analysis (cell segmentation, neuron tracing, brain registration, annotation, quantitative measurement and statistics, etc) and data management. This makes V3D suitable for various bioimage informatics applications, and a nice platform to develop new 3D image analysis algorithms for high-throughput processing. In short, V3D streamlines the workflow of visualization-assisted analysis.

V3D can render 5D (spatial-temporal) data directly in 3D volume-rendering mode; it supports convenient and interactive local and global 3D views at different scales. It even has a Matlab file IO toolbox. Probably most importantly, you can now write your own plugins to take advantage of the V3D platform!

What's new in v3d 2.603:

Major upgrade of the V3D main program and make the plugin interface even easier and more powerful. Allow multi-thread data loading whenever possible. Add web file fetching and load function. Enable 16/32 bit direct 3D visualization and 3D WYSIWYG for such data. Fixed some bugs and enhanced the interaction performance. More comprehensive plugin interface.
V3D now is open source, along with more than 100 plugins developed by various people. Some featured plugins that can be very useful include Simple Movie Maker, 5D Stack Converter, Fast Distance Transform, Multi-thread Image Loading, V3D Example Plugin for Push Image and Objects, etc. You can also check out the latest source code, or download pre-compiled versions below.
Note that as the V3D plugin interface is still being continuously enhanced, if you would like to write plugins for V3D, you need to ensure you check out the latest version of the source code.
Special note about large image files (>2G bytes): The new, and default, image data reader uses LIBTIFF to read files and thus has the limitation to load >2G image files. If you want to do so, you can rename or remove this data reader, which is a plugin called "multithreaded_imgloading" under the "plugins" sub-folder in your V3D folder. Then you need to also change preferences by selecting the main menu "File->Adjust Preferences->Use LibTiff (ON) or MYLIB (OFF)" to be OFF.

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