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ImageVis3D is a new volume rendering program developed by the NIH/NIGMS Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC). The main design goals of ImageVis3D are: simplicity, scalability, and interactivity. Simplicity is achieved with a new user interface that gives an unprecedented level of flexibility. Scalability and interactivity mean that users can interactively explore terabyte-sized data sets on hardware ranging from mobile devices to high-end graphics workstations. Finally, the open source nature as well as the strict component-by-component design allow developers not only to extend ImageVis3D itself but also reuse parts of it, such as the rendering core. This rendering core for instance is planned to replace the volume rendering subsystems in many applications at the SCI Institute and with our collaborators.
ImageVis3D is open source software that we develop to aid the research community in doing what they do best. While we do enjoy doing this, we would not be able to dream of spending nearly as much time with ImageVis3D as we do if it wasn't for your support. Direct praise for our software is one of the main criterion our funding organizations look for when deciding if they should continue funding development.
Acknowledgment
If you use ImageVis3D in work that leads to published research, we humbly ask that you add the following to the 'Acknowledgments' section of your paper:
"This project was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant numbers P41 GM103545 and R24 GM136986, and the DOE SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies, DEFC0206ER25781."
Demonstrating such effect is our foremost objective when speaking to our funding agencies. If you do not want to sign up for any of our mailing lists just for this reason, you can send a direct e-mail to Tom Fogal and he will route it appropriately.
"Verbal" (i.e. textual) praise is also useful for us, if we may quote it. If you would just like to drop us a note and say that our software is useful to you, that would be great as well. Plus it makes us feel good.
Citations
If you wish to cite ImageVis3D in academic work, we ask that you cite, Tuvok, an Architecture for Large Scale Volume Rendering. If your field uses BibTeX, we provide a BibTeX citation that you can use. Alternatively, if you use EndNote, we provide an EndNote file as well. For other fields, just open the BibTeX citation in a text editor (i.e., notepad on Windows, TextEdit on Mac) and copy the fields into your software manually.
• ImageVis3D Citation: [bibtex citation] [Endnote citation]
ImageVis3D License
ImageVis3D is available for free and is open source under the MIT License
The MIT License Copyright (c) 2012 Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah. License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
NIH/NIGMS Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing Acknowledgment
CIBC software and the data sets provided on this web site are Open Source software projects that are principally funded through the SCI Institute's NIH/NIGMS CIBC SCIRun License For us to secure the funding that allows us to continue providing this software, we must have evidence of its utility. Thus we ask users of our software and data to acknowledge us in their publications and inform us of these publications. Please use the following acknowledgment and send us references to any publications, presentations, or successful funding applications that make use of the NIH/NIGMS CIBC software or data sets we provide.
"This project was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant numbers P41 GM103545 and R24 GM136986.”