3D Constructor Specifications

3D Constructor^TM
The 3D Reconstruction & Visualization Module for Image-Pro® Plus

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Visualization:

This module includes a volume renderer, stack slicer, and montage tools - all with full interaction.

	Volume renderer viewable from any angle, with adjustable transparency and shading.
	Full interactive control with 3D-image for zoom, rotate and panning with the image-stack.
	Voxel-size and Sub-sampling functionality.
	Alpha, Sum and Maximum intensity rendering.
	Full freedom of light control for the intensity, direction for the optimum light and shading effects
	Choice of material textures, transparencies and opacity
	Free choice of palette-colors for optimum color spectrum visualization
	Orthogonal slicing aligned with the X, Y or Z axis and free oblique choice of slicing plane.
	Visualization of clipping planes in orthogonal and oblique plane-selection and the combination of both.
	Selection of VOI (Volume of Interest), which will include or exclude the sub-volume for better visualization of underlying features in the 3D stack.
	Stack Slicer for exploring stack data with synchronized display orthogonal slices through a stack.
	Animation composer with full flexibility in camera positions, quality and export to e.g. AVI files
	Multiple Iso-surface rendering based on traingularization of the selected intensities and colors.
	All render methods can be displayed in stereo mode using the OpenGL technology.

The 3D Constructor plug-in module for Image-Pro Plus supplies 3D visualization capabilities to Image-Pro users.

3D reconstruction and visualization can expose hidden relationships within and among objects. 3D Constructor brings this power to researchers through a visualization workspace integrated into the popular Image-Pro Plus environment.

Z-stacks may be collected via Media Cybernetics' Scope-Pro® and AFA® modules for Image-Pro Plus, or loaded from stored files in all major confocal formats.

FEATURES

Rotate in X, Y and Z dimensions

Zoom

Change background color

View with numerous isosurface rendering options:

	Intensity assignment
	Opaque
	Transparency level
	Lighting effects

Animate by selecting rotation angles

Select volume of interest

Numerous stereo modes

Display orthogonal and oblique slices

SPECIFICATIONS

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General:

Seamless integration with Image Pro Plus 4.5

Full 32-bit application available for Windows 98/ME/NT/2000.

Multi language menu selections (upon request)

Fully automated 3D-solution for light microscopy, with Image Pro wide-field-microscope control module, seamless integrated with the Scope-Pro Advanced Fluorescence Acquisition (AFA) module

Reading of stack-file-formats:

	Olympus FluoView Confocal files
	BioRad Confocal files
	Carl Zeiss Confocal files
	Leica Confocal files
	Nikon Confocal files
	AutoQuant files
	TIFF-series
	Image Pro Sequence files

Automated reading of the image parameters for visualization, like wavelength, NA, magnification, immersion refractive index, and X,Y,Z spacing. Alternatively these values can be entered manually.

Download this self-contained executable file to see how 3D Constructor's volume slice capability elucidates the 3D structure of an object.