Mailing Lists
The developer mailing list is where development concerns should be voiced. If you plan on working on a particular feature, it is a good idea to post your ideas here before you get too far in, so that we can give advice on how best to proceed.IRC
The lead developer hangs out on the Freenode IRC network as 'tfogal'. He also idles in an #imagevis3d channel.Please free to join the channel and/or message 'tfogal' directly, but note that IRC is commonly asynchronous: it may take hours or days for a reply.
Lingo
The ImageVis3D developers have developed some terminology which are frequently used in the context of ImageVis3D-related discussion. A dictionary for these terms is:"iv3d"/"IV3D"/"ImageVis"/"ImgVis": ImageVis3D
"Tuvok"/"TUVOK": The Ultimate VOlume (rendering) Kit -- the renderer that powers ImageVis3D.
"UVF": ImageVis3D's custom file format, which enables fast access to multiresolution data.
"scio"/"SCIO"/"the io layer/subsystem": An independent library handling conversion from various data formats to UVF.