[Insight-users] Open Source V3D v2.526 and V3D-ITK project released!

Sun Sep 12 16:10:28 EDT 2010

The lack of participation of company participation prevents this
software from ever being robust, well tested and vital. In my opinion
it will remain an academic exercise.

Thank goodness that vtk and itk never had these commercial
restrictions. Actually, vtk and itk would not exist if they had these
restrictions.

Neither would paraview, cmake, cdash, ctest, linux...

Bill

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Alexandre GOUAILLARD
<agouaillard at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi luis, bill,
>
> speaking solely for the biologists in my institute that handle
> confocal microscopy images, the license, and the fact that V3D
> supposes that the image fits in memory (and crashes otherwise) are the
> two reasons why we're not using it. Note that unlike some other public
> labs, we have a technology transfer part spelled out in our objectives
> and thus are very sensitive about licenses.
>
> Hope that will help giving incentives for a change both in license and
> design (out-of core processing seems the only way to go for microscopy
> images as we foresee that images will get bigger faster than memory
> will).
>
> 2 cents.
>
> alex.
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out.
>>
>>
>> I have been encouraging Hanchuan to
>> adopt an Apache 2.0 License for V3D.
>>
>> Just as ITK and the ITK-V3D plugins do...
>>
>> --
>>
>> Hopefully your encouragement
>> will be more effective than mine.       :-)
>>
>>
>>      Luis
>>
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am sad to see that the license:
>>> http://penglab.janelia.org/proj/v3d/V3D/License.html
>>> has commercial restrictions.
>>>
>>> Luis,
>>> I curious if you need a special license since you work for a for-profit
>>> company.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Please note as well
>>> > that you can write ITK plugins for V3D.
>>> >
>>> > Examples of ITK plugins are available at:
>>> >
>>> > https://svn.janelia.org/penglab/projects/v3d/trunk/2010_hackathon/ITK-V3D-Plugins
>>> >
>>> > and in github at:
>>> > http://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK-V3D-Plugins
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The Nightly Dashboard of V3D can be found at:
>>> >
>>> >       http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=V3D
>>> >
>>> > and the builds of the ITK-V3D plugins are submitted to
>>> > the "External" section of the ITK Dashboard at:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight#ITKv4_External
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > We anticipate that the number of ITK plugins will grow,
>>> > and that in this way we will be able to make of ITK a more
>>> > useful tool for the analysis of microscopy images.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     Luis
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Hanchuan Peng <pengh at janelia.hhmi.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> We are pleased to announce that a new version (v2.526) of V3D, along
>>> >> with
>>> >> all its source code, have been released! Download at the official
>>> >> website
>>> >>
>>> >> http://penglab.janelia.org/proj/v3d/
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Join the discussion forum at
>>> >>
>>> >> http://www.nitrc.org/projects/v3d/
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> About V3D:
>>> >>
>>> >> V3D is a handy, fast, and versatile 3D/4D/5D Image Visualization &
>>> >> Analysis System for Bioimages & Surface Objects. It also provides many
>>> >> unique functions. It is also Open Source, supports a very simple and
>>> >> powerful plugin interface and thus can be extended & enhanced easily.
>>> >> This
>>> >> software has recently been published in Nature Biotechnology (April
>>> >> 2010),
>>> >> received highlights in Nature Methods (May, 2010), Science News
>>> >> (April/May
>>> >> 2010), and NITRC (Aug, 2010). Developer hackathons that involved about
>>> >> 10
>>> >> different research labs were also held recently (July-Aug, 2010).
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> V3D is a cross-platform (Mac, Linux, and Windows) tool for visualizing
>>> >> large-scale (gigabytes, and 64-bit data) 3D, 4D and 5D image stacks and
>>> >> various surface data. It is also a container of powerful modules for 3D
>>> >> image analysis (cell segmentation, neuron tracing, brain registration,
>>> >> annotation, quantitative measurement and statistics, etc) and data
>>> >> management. This makes V3D suitable for various bioimage informatics
>>> >> applications, and a nice platform to develop new 3D image analysis
>>> >> algorithms for high-throughput processing. In short, V3D streamlines
>>> >> the
>>> >> workflow of visualization-assisted analysis.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> In our latest development, V3D can render 5D (spatial-temporal) data
>>> >> directly in 3D volume-rendering mode; it supports convenient and
>>> >> interactive
>>> >> local and global 3D views at different scales. it even has a Matlab
>>> >> file IO
>>> >> toolbox. Probably most importantly, you can now write your own plugins
>>> >> to
>>> >> take advantage of the V3D platform!
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Please contact us if you want to learn more, provide feedbacks, or
>>> >> become
>>> >> a part of this exciting developing team!
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> ====================================
>>> >>
>>> >> Hanchuan Peng, Ph.D.,
>>> >> Janelia Farm Research Campus
>>> >> Howard Hughes Medical Institute
>>> >> 19700 Helix Drive,
>>> >> Ashburn, VA, 20147, USA.
>>> >> Tel: (+1) 571-209-4156
>>> >> Fax: (+1) 571-209-4933
>>> >> Email: pengh at janelia.hhmi.org
>>> >>
>>> >> * Peng Lab: http://penglab.janelia.org
>>> >>
>>> >> * V3D lets you explore&  understand your
>>> >>  large 3D/4D/5D images a lot easier!
>>> >> - fast 3D+ image visualization and analysis,
>>> >>  WYSIWYG, and easy plugin interface:
>>> >>  http://penglab.janelia.org/proj/v3d
>>> >>
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