http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Opening-Volocity-files-tp3700330p3700334.html
Thank you for the details on the Volocity format. We are looking into
Also good to hear about your Openlab LIFF plugin. Have you considered
VisAD, and hopefully others as time goes on. Moreover, the ultimate
(OME-XML). This strategy will enable universal easy access to common
additional hardware information, and more. *steps off soapbox*
> Hi, Curtis
>
> My Openlab Liff plugin is not using bio-formats (although i did use
> some code from it).
> It is basically a translation of the Improvision Openlab C-code, and
> opens the Liff5 format,
> some versions of IFF2 are also supported.
> I'll post it to Wayne after i clean up the code a bit.
>
> The new volocity format is a metakit database, and there is no public
> info on it that i can get from Improvision.
> So they recommend reading the exported tiffs.
> And i don't think there is a java api for metakit available, so would
> would have to use JNI.
>
> Kurt
>
> On 13 Feb 2007, at 15:33, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeremy, Kurt & Michael,
> >
> > On 2/12/07, Jeremy Sanderson <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >> Can anyone please tell me if there is a plugin for opening Volocity
> >> files in ImageJ, and where I can get this if it exists?
> >
> > Jeremy, I do not know anything about the Volocity format. Is it
> > distinct from Openlab LIFF, and Openlab RAW? If so, what is the file
> > extension? Is it something that would be worthwhile for us to add to
> > Bio-Formats? Could you provide any sample data?
> >
> > On 2/12/07, Kurt De Vos <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >> I wrote a plugin that opens Volocity files, but only when they are
> >> exported as tiffs.
> >> Basically it opens the tiff using the standard ImageJ opener and then
> >> reads the
> >> volocity specific tags (time; calibration) using the
> >> loci.formats.TiffTools.
> >
> > Kurt, I'm glad the Bio-Formats library is useful to you. If you have
> > any suggestions for improvements, please let us know.
> >
> >> If you are interested i can send you a copy.
> >> I also have a plugin that opens Openlab LIFF files if that can
> >> help you.
> >
> > Are you talking about Bio-Formats, or some other plugin for Openlab
> > LIFF? I was not aware of any others. Have you considered listing it on
> > the ImageJ Documentation Wiki's "Which file formats are supported by
> > ImageJ" page?
> >
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/imagej-documentation-wiki/faq/which-file-> > types-are-supported-by-imagej
> >
> > On 2/12/07, Michael Schell <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >> Your options for opening Volocity files on ImageJ are:
> >>
> >> 1. Export as .tiff and use the Improvision importer plugin (can be
> >> found in the ImageJ bundle complied by Tony Collins). This will
> >> import the images and the scale info (but not timestamp).
> >
> > I think this is the Improvision TIFF importer plugin that I wrote. The
> > code is very simple; timestamp would most likely be very easy to add.
> >
> >> 2. Export as .liff and then use the LOCI Bioformats importer to
> >> import .liff. This works sometimes, and not others.
> >
> > Michael, if you have LIFF files that do not work well for you, please
> > feel free to send them to us. This goes for anyone with data files in
> > any supported format -- please contact us so that we can make
> > Bio-Formats better!
> >
> >> To my knowledge, there is no means to directly open Volocity format
> >> files directly into ImageJ
> >
> > It sounds like this file format is separate from Openlab LIFF and RAW.
> > Any chance I could obtain some samples, so that we can look into
> > adding it to Bio-Formats?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Curtis
>