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ImageVis3D

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Written in
  
C++, OpenGL, DirectX

Type
  
Volume rendering

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

License
  
MIT

ImageVis3D

Developer(s)
  
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute

Stable release
  
3.1.0 / April 8, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-04-08)

ImageVis3D is a lightweight, open source, volume rendering application for the interactive visualization of very large volumetric data sets. It utilizes both the slice based as well as the GPU ray casting approach to visualize the volume data. The source code is currently maintained in a publicly accessible Subversion repository by the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah.

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History

ImageVis3D's development was initiated in 2007 by the NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing and additionally supported by the DOE Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies at the SCI Institute. After an initial development phase of about one year the project was released under the MIT license and since then multiple institutions from America, Europe and Asia are contributing to the software. Recently the first version of ImageVis3D mobile has been released, allowing for the mobile visualization of volumetric scalar data.

Features

  • has a rich feature set for volume rendering Cartesian scalar and color data
  • supports 1D and 2D transfer functions as well as isosurface extraction and the ClearView rendering technique
  • supports stereo rendering
  • takes full advantage of the features of the newest generation of graphics cards but still works well on older hardware
  • supports the most common industry and research file formats including DICOM stacks
  • works entirely out of core, making it possible to interactively visualize hundreds of gigabytes of data on commodity hardware
  • connects to ImageVis3D Mobile, an iPhone/iPod touch application, to allow for interactive volume rendering anywhere
  • is divided into multiple modules (e.g. UI, IO, rendering) which can all be used separately. Examples of such separate use are the integration of parts ImageVis3D into other open source and commercial products (see list below)
  • is released under the MIT license

    • ImageVis3D in other applications

    ImageVis3D or more precisely its volume rendering core has been incorporated into other applications such as VisIt and VisTrails

    Sample Datasets

    Some sample datasets are now available from the ImageVis3D download page.

    References

    ImageVis3D Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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