Tales from the Trenches: Developing sciview, a new 3D viewer for the ImageJ community
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2020
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The Eurographics Association
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ImageJ/Fiji is a widely-used tool in the biomedical community for performing everyday image analysis tasks. However, its 3D viewer component (aptly named 3D Viewer) has become dated and is no longer actively maintained. We set out to create an alternative tool that not only brings modern concepts and APIs from computer graphics to ImageJ, but is designed to be robust to long-term, open-source development. To achieve this we divided the visualization logic into two parts: the rendering framework, scenery, and the user-facing application, sciview. In this paper we describe the development process and design decisions made, putting an emphasis on sustainable development, community building, and software engineering best practises. We highlight the motivation for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as a target platform for visualisation applications. We conclude by discussing the remaining milestones and strategy for long-term sustainability.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:visgap.20201112,
booktitle = {VisGap - The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software},
editor = {Gillmann, Christina and Krone, Michael and Reina, Guido and Wischgoll, Thomas},
title = {{Tales from the Trenches: Developing sciview, a new 3D viewer for the ImageJ community}},
author = {Günther, Ulrik and Harrington, Kyle I. S.},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-125-0},
DOI = {10.2312/visgap.20201112}
}