Contributing a new writer plugin

Posted by Brian Long on Feb 24, 2014; 6:18pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Contributing-a-new-writer-plugin-tp5006655.html

Greetings-

I've written a new writer plugin for saving images in .v3draw format for opening in the 3D visualization program Vaa3D.  I'm new to the world of java development,  maven and git:  how do I contribute the plugin to the main ImageJ 1 repo?

My plugin is built off the minimal-ij-1-plugin maven project and currently configured to place another entry in the 'Save As >' menu.
General Info:  Vaa3D is an open-source platform for 3D visualization and analysis of bio-images developed by Hanchuan Peng and his team (formerly Janelia Farm HHMI, currently at the Allen Institute for Brain Science).  Unlike the previous Vaa3d writer plugin that stored the whole image as a variable before writing, this update writes plane-by-plane, meaning that large files can be loaded as virtual stacks and written to .v3draw.

I'm also working on incorporating this into the Bio-Formats writer, so if anyone here has advice along those lines, I'd appreciate that too!  I'll be cross-posting to their list as well when I have something working for the BioFormats/Scifio/?  Convert tool.


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