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3D software Listed here are software that are especially useful for the analysis of 3D data. Note: many of the entries are just cross references (links shown in this font) to software listed elsewhere on this site. |
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| Landmark editor | Landmark was developed by the scientists at the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV) and the University of California, Davis. Working together with collaborators at the American Museum of Natural History, the team was able to build an easy to use tool for 3D landmark editing and placement on geometric surfaces typically obtained via laser range scans.). Version 3. Documentation, and software as well as an example of its application to "evolutionary morphing.". |
4/4/06 |
| Edgewarp3 | Thin-plane splines and related methods for 3D data. Linux and Mac OSX. Reads CT and other medical images in Dicom format and produces a grayscale volume which can be navigated and landmarked by the usual Edgewarp tools. By Bill Green and Fred L. Bookstein. | 2/24/05 |
| 3D Imaging Workstation | The MGI Workstation operates on 3D Image data derived from a variety of sources of section scan data or from Laser surface scans. Developed for Maxillo-facial surgery, this has found many applications in orthopaedic and other surgery. The user can use a variety of cutting, repositioning and joining procedures on the 3D data, which will have been acquired from CT, MRI or even 3D ultrasound. Surface views of the manipulated image can be viewed from any direction; sectional images can be reconstructed along any plane, allowing full assessment of the spatial image structure modified by the user. By Robin Richards, Medical Physics, MEDICAL IMAGING GROUP, University College London and the UCL Hospital. | 2006 |
| VTK | VTK software is free and was built for CT scans. Can use its Marching Cubes algorithm to produce 3-D surfaces and then export it in a format for INTEGRATE. | 2/22/05 |
| DSDIGIT | A program to collect 2 and 3-dimensional coordinates of points using a digitizer. By Dennis Slice. | 11/5/94 |
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Cross-platform package for morphometric data analysis. Versions for AIX, DOS/WIN, LINUX, and SGI. Provides a comprehensive, cross-platform environment for the acquisition, processing, and analysis of morphometric data. By Dennis E. Slice. |
1/31/00 |
| Morphologika2 | Morphologika is a program that is now freely available for the analysis of 3d coordinate data. It offers GPA and PCA of tangent space coordinates and allows ready visualisation of results.Follow the link at the left to download the software. For more information contact Paul O'higgins. Version 2.5. | 12/8/07 |
| IMP | The Integrated Morphometrics Package for Windows contains programs that can be used on 3D data. Developed by David Sheets and described in the primer by Zelditch et al. (2004). | 7/7/04 |
| MorphoStudio | Commercial 2D & 3D software they describe as a "software suite for dentists, orthodontists, oral and maxillofacial, craniofacial, plastic and cosmetic surgeons, and other specialists... , who need advanced geometric-morphometrics tools." Includes GPA, finite element analysis, thin-plate spline, measurement analysis, and statistical tests. MorphoStudio incorporates a dense correspondence algorithm so that a mean object can be derived from a sample, ready for further analyses e.g. PCA etc Version 2.0 (for 2D data) and 3.0 (that can load 3D surface scans as wrl files) are available. | 4/19/05 |
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General 3D visualization software Software are listed here that provide some general tools for visualizing 3D shapes. Their use in morphometrics will often involve some form of programming. |
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| Meshlab | MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes. | 5/18/07 |
| RGL | A 3D visualization device system for R. Uses using OpenGL as the rendering backend. The rgl package is a visualization device system for R, using OpenGL as the rendering backend. An rgl device at its core is a real-time 3D engine written in C++. It provides an interactive viewpoint navigation facility (mouse + wheel support) and an R programming interface. | 2/24/05 |
| 3D Slicer | The 3D Slicer is freely available, open-source software for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data. An online User Guide is available. | |
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