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ImageJ

ImageJ requires a browser that implements JDK 1.1. ImageJ accepts various data input formats including arrays of floats. Furthermore, ImageJ offers a set of simple interactive image manipulations such as zoom, edge detection, image brightness, etc. Users of ImageJ are invited supply additional plug-ins that extend ImageJ's capabilities to a specific data format or special processing tools. The pages

http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/matt/join/ijDoc/ipDem/ipDemo.html
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/matt/join/ijDoc/imageJ/imageJ.html
show two examples of ImageJ.

Currently, ImageJ does not offer all the graphics capabilities that I want, but Wayne Rasband, the author of ImageJ, promised to add more features soon. Currently, ImageJ does not support movies and image annotation. ImageJ displays an array of pixel values. It does not have a notion of axes beyond the number of pixels along each axis. Wayne Rasband suggests to add axis information as a plug-in. ImageJ's distinction between an image's displayed data values and its auxiliary features such as axes or buttons, must simplify ImageJ's data manipulations. Overall I am glad that I did not need to write a graphics package from scratch. For more information on my experience with ImageJ see the Appendix.


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3/8/1999