[MINC-users] brain-view??

[Jason Lerch]

EJ Nikelski wrote:
> Hi Anka,
>
>    Are you looking for beta testers? We would be willing to test mincView,
> particularly if it provides similar functionality to brain-view, i.e.
> overlaying a cortical surface (obj) with functional or cortical thickness
> data.  Just make the source and a make file available, and we can build it
> ourselves.  We don't really need a package at this point ...
>
>    BTW, do you know whether brain-view is really dead? It looks a bit dated
> (QT3  with SoQT libraries and a very Inventor look to it).  If it is
> officially dead, I shall recommend that we look for something else.
>   
Contrary to seemingly popular belief, brain-view is not dead (as an 
aside, why would having an Inventor look make it seem dead? I'll take 
Inventor or its derivatives over VTK any day). As far as I know you're 
welcome to it, unless anyone from Alan's group objects.

Jason
> Thanks for the info,
>
> -Jim
>
>
>
> On 5/1/07, Anka Kochanowska <anka at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>   
>> In Louis Collins' lab we have an IGNS project with few applications that
>> allow you to view minc data or display obj files.
>> There is a simple program called MincView, based on vtk (5.0) with qt
>> user interface.
>> As the project is not finished, there is no package ready for install,
>> and I have not yet thought of creating it (I am the main developer on
>> the project).
>>
>> Anka
>>
>>
>> EJ Nikelski wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>   I am collaborating with a researcher who recollects using a piece of
>>> BIC-developed software, called brain-view, sometime in the recent past.
>>> Personally, I have never heard of it, and it isn't amongst the packages
>>> distributed by BIC (I believe) ... although there is a link at
>>> "http://wiki.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/index.php/BrainViewDev"<
>>>       
>> http://wiki.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/index.php/BrainViewDev>
>>     
>>> and Yorick seems to have some version of it running.
>>>
>>>   Question: Is this software ready for use and being actively developed
>>>       
>> and
>>     
>>> distributed (within the BIC community, at least)?  Or is this simply a
>>> "proof of concept" project that isn''t going any further (as suggested in
>>> the wiki). Are there better options?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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