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Overview Bender is a free, open source software for repositioning voxelized anatomical models. It applies the rigging, skinning and posing technique to volumes by providing an additional step to resample the volume: Rigging: Specify the skeleton ("rig" or also "armature") that represents the linear sections and joints of the body, by which the body will be re-positioned. Skinning: Associate the volume voxels associated with each section of the skeleton. Posing: Animate the rigging by bending and rotating the joints to define the target repositioning of the body. Resampling: Resample the bones, soft tissues, and skin of the voxelized model onto the repositioned rigging to create a new voxelized model. 3D labelmap Rigging Skinning Posing Repositioning News 2014/10/16 Publication at ISBMS: Bender, An Open Source Software for Efficient Model Posing and Morphing 2014/04/08 Bender 2.0 has been released! Download it on Midas. 2014/04/07 Watch the Bender 2.0 tutorial and walk through the step-by-step tutorial. 2014/03/16 Bender 2.0 has entered release candidate stage. The final release is planned for April 2014. 2013/09/02 Watch the Bender 1.1 tutorial and walk through the new step-by-step tutorial. 2013/09/01 Bender 1.1 has been released! Download Bender on Midas. 2013/04/05 2 new videos: Bender 1.0 preview and Bender 1.0 tutorial 2013/03/01 Bender 1.0 is out ! Download it now on Midas 2012/12/20 The first beta version has just been released ! Download and try Bender 0.1 here Acknowledgement This effort is funded by the Air Force Research Laboratories. Bender is based on the Slicer framework supported by NA-MIC and the Slicer community.