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All- Wayne can correct me as needed, but when I was working in the same building at NIH, he originally developed the software for Macs and it was called NIH Image. My lab converted to Macs in part because of that and I have been using them ever since. When he made it a multiplatform application, he used Java and termed it ImageJ.
-Bruce
On 6/12/21, 10:08, "ImageJ Interest Group on behalf of Herbie" <
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The link to my previous question (list post) is:
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Am 12.06.21 um 13:01 schrieb Herbie:
> Dear listers,
>
> in the sequel to my previous question posted to this list
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> Kevin Eliceiri immediately provided some information regarding recent
> terminological changes.
> Because his reply to my original question didn't make it to the list
> yet, and because the further email-exchange happened off-list, I should
> like to post my understanding of the situation.
>
> 1.
> A longstanding fact is that Wayne Rasband conceptualized, implemented
> and continuously extends and maintains the scientific image processing
> software that he named "ImageJ" nearly 25 years ago.
> (I can't remember that he ever termed it differently.)
>
> 2.
> Only recently however, "ImageJ" appears being used in either a different
> or a much wider sense (see the attachments to my previous post).
> From Kevin Eliceiri I now learned that here "ImageJ" stands for what he
> calls the "ImageJ ecosystem" that includes all "ImageJ elements" such as
> "IJ1, IJ2 and FIJI".
>
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> I feel that it is not a good idea to use "ImageJ" as both, a specific
> _as well as_ a generic term, and I'm pretty sure that such usage will
> puzzle not only me.
>
> Did Wayne Rasband agree with the "extended" meaning and usage of
> "ImageJ", the name he gave to the software that he developed?
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>
> Apart from that, I'm surprised that IJ1 (that I understand is Wayne
> Rasband's ImageJ) or Fiji, both stand-alone software, should be regarded
> as elements of ImageJ.
>
> All opinions welcome...
>
> Herbie
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