http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Stack-Problem-on-Vista-Bioimageformats-tp3691826p3691828.html
might be a bug with your video hardware. You can turn down the video's
launch an ImageViewer application. Choose File > Open from the menu, and
open your ZVI. Does it look scrambled there? If so, it is probably a bug in
dataset from you, so that we can fix the problem. If you are willing to send
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. <
> I tried Wayne's suggestion of updating LOCI using both today's daily build
> and the 2008 stable build to no avail.
>
> I have the following behavior that may provide the more knowledge with
> insight. If I load a .zvi image stack into ImageJ with load into Image5D
> selected instead of standard ImageJ selected I still get the scambled image
> displayed. If I now switch from grayscale to ovl on the right the first
> frame of the stack is displayed completely properly. If I now move the
> z-slider to a subsequent frame, I get a scrambled view of that frame. Moving
> to color or grayscale and back to ovl make this subsequent frame appear
> normally. Finally, moving the slider back to frame1 produces a scrambled
> view of Frame1. After using the ovl trick to get a normal image, performing
> other ImageJ operations such as Image->Adjust->Brightness and contrast
> causes the frame to scramble.
>
> Any additional insights.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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> Subject: Stack Problem on Vista/Bioimageformats
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> I have been experiencing some strange behavior when opening .zvi phase
> z-stacks with ImageJ 1.43b on a Vista Machine. The individual frames of the
> stack have scrambled squares that each represent a small fraction of the
> normal image, but with no particular order to the squares. The squares
> repeat maybe 4 times and don't together represent the entire image.
> Scrolling through the stack causes the frames to progress through the
> z-plane focus, but each frame is made of scrambled squares.
>
> Strangely, the (mis)behavior is not 100% consistent. I can occasionaly get
> the stacks to open like normal stacks. I have superstiously attributed
> this "normalcy" to running ImageJ update, opening as a hyperstack, rebooting
> the computer, but in the end, none of thes seem to produce a consistent fix.
>
> The version of ImageJ that is doing this was downloaded from
> MacBiophotonics site. I have installed and reinstalled this to no avail.
> Interesting, I have an older imageJ on the same machine that will open the
> same Image Stack completely normally even as the MacBiophotonics 1.43b
> version is stuggling.
>
> Of course this could be a pure Vista or Video driver problem, but I am at a
> loss as to how to debug the problem. Any suggestions or ideas why this is
> happening?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
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> Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
> Professor of Physiology
> Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicne
> A. T. Still University of Health Sciences
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