VolViewer

Description

VolViewer is an open source application for the interactive visualisation and quantification of biological data. The application is written in C++ using OpenGL and Qt.

Features:

• Real-time volume rendering using an optimized 3D texture slicing algorithm.
• Interactive transfer functions to independently adjust opacity and luminance for up to three data channels.
• Real-time per channel thresholding, brightness and contrast operators.
• On-the-fly gradient computation for local illumination.
• Iso-surface computation with surface smoothing.
• Section viewing in any orientation / position.
• Real-time volume clipping.
• 3D measurements.

Requirements:

Nvidia Geforce 8 and above.

Image Gallery

* all data courtesy of Karen Lee [1]

Download

Windows (32bit) | Windows (64bit) | Linux (64bit) | MacOS X (i386/x86_64/10.5+)

User Manual

User Manual

Source Code

https://cmpdartsvr1.cmp.uea.ac.uk/banghamlabSVN/VolViewer/

Author

• Jerome Avondo

Video Demo

This video demo shows the interactive visualisation capabilities of VolViewer.

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These two videos show the 3D measurement capabilities of VolViewer.

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Media/Press

VolViewer has been used to in the following:

• Front cover: Handbook of Plant Science

• Bundled with the commercial Optical Projection Tomography Bioptonic 3001 scanner: Bioptonics Viewer

• In the Guardian newspaper: 3D Fruit fly