What's new in v3d 2.603
Aug 10, 2011
- 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.