3-D-E
3-D-E Visualiser and Contour Editor
3-D-E, supplied by Data Cell, is a Windows based software product designed to take
2D image data and reconstruct to a 3-D surface rendered object. It allows the user to
view, rotate and zoom under mouse control in real time on a 486 PC.
Applications:
- Confocal Microscopy
- Cell Analysis
- MRI and CT Scanning
- Sequence Tracking
- Laser Profiling
- Research and Development
3-D-E comes with a contour editor used to generate a wire frame data set from 2-D
images and a Visualiser which takes the wire frame data and renders it using lighting,
camera and shading parameters.
Visualiser Features:
- Accepts 3-D data from the Contour Editor or ASCII file.
- Real Time Zooming and Rotating under mouse control
- Ability to view inside by interactively changing cut plane.
- External and internal Rendering
More than one object can be viewed at once and rotated independently while objects
of different colours maybe defined within an object to show internal workings. The
image window can be copied into the clipboard and pasted into word-processing and
graphical packages for report generation.
The Contour Editor is used to load a set of image slices and define them as a sequence
with a Z distance between each slice. The contour of each image is drawn around
the perimeter using the mouse in a point and click fashion. Contours are then repeated
and edited for subsequent images until all contours have been drawn. The constructed
object can be seen in the Viewer by launching it from the editor.
As well as manually drawing contours, boundary points can be loaded in from
packages like Optimas where they are generated automatically. An Optimas macro is
available which generates boundary points of a chosen segment length and converts
the data to a contour file. In addition, the macro can be linked to the Sequence
Extension available with Optimas to automate the complete image set.
Contour Editor Features:
- Uses Industry Standard file formats including tif, bmp and jpg
- Contours can be re-edited at any stage
- Contours can be pasted between slices and shifted, rotated and zoomed.
- Generates ASCII files for loading into the 3-D Viewer
- Several files can be pasted together to generate objects within objects
Both the Editor and Visualiser come with full on-line help and a manual that explains
the technical aspects of the software.