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 / Sample Data
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| Antirinhium Meristem | Antirinhium Seedling | Arabidopsis Leaf (GL2:GUS expression in red) | Arabidopsis Meristem (Ath8:::GUS expression in red) |
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* all data courtesy of Karen Lee [1]
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Windows (32bit) | Windows (64bit) | Linux (64bit) | MacOS X (i386/x86_64/10.5+)
User Manual
Source Code
https://cmpdartsvr1.cmp.uea.ac.uk/banghamlabSVN/VolViewer/
Author
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