Re: XYZT visualization

Posted by dscho on Jan 21, 2009; 8:29am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Copy-volume-from-within-stack-to-new-stack-tp3693965p3693981.html

Dear Aryeh,

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Aryeh Weiss wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > If I understood Aryeh correctly, what he wants is to visualize 3D
> > stacks (XYZ, i.e some recordings of a confocal microscope or some
> > such, where you have slices for different z coordinates), and he has
> > several 3D stacks recorded from the same specimen taken at different
> > time points.
> >
> > So this means that he has an XYZT hyperstack.
> >
> > And he wants to see a 3D visualization (volume rendering, thresholded
> > surface, or something like that) over time, and while it loops through
> > the time steps, he wants to turn it around interactively (meaning
> > rotating/moving the specimen around, all the while it is looping
> > through the time steps).
>
> Yes -- this is exactly what I meant. I already have the XYZT hyperstack.
> It would really be nice to be able to use the hyperstack as the input to
> the volume visualization program.

As Bene said he is motivated to work on it again, I think support for this
is not far away :-)  After all, the 3D viewer can already read a number of
stacks from a directory, so it should be a matter of detecting that the
user specified a file instead of a directory, and then just a little more
code to handle the hyperstack.

Ciao,
Dscho