ViSUS Viewer

Basic Usage

Open/Add a dataset

A dataset can be either local or remote (e.g. provided by a ViSUS Server).

Local dataset

Two options are available to open a local dataset in the menu File:

• Open file... (open a single file, all the datasets in the current session will be discarded)
• Add file... (add a dataset to the current session)

Remote dataset

Two options are available to open a remote dataset in the menu File:

• Open URL... (open a remote dataset, all the datasets in the current session will be discarded)
• Add URL... (add a dataset to the current session)

Try, for example, to open the Gigapixel 2D dataset David using this URL: http://atlantis.sci.utah.edu/mod_visus?dataset=david

And zoom in as you like!

Bookmarks and Configuration

A fresh ViSUS installation should provide in the Bookmarks menu a list of datasets that are publicly available. You can use those to experience some of the functionalities and performance of ViSUS Viewer or add your own IDX datasets using the ViSUS configuration file.

Advanced configuration (i.e. mostly performance and platform specific related) are also contained in the ViSUS configuration file.

Save/Open a scene

The current scene can be saved on disk using the File->Save scene... command. The scene will contain all the datasets and settings in the current session.

The current scene can also be saved as history that will contain also all the operation performed by the user in the scene (i.e. using File->Save history...).

The same scene can be later opened from File->Open file... and shared with other users (i.e. assuming other users can access the datasets in the scene using the same path/URL, this means that datasets might be remote or on a shared file system).

Nodes/Filters

When you open or add a new datasets you will get a tree of nodes on your left sidebar that will allow to define analysis and visualization pipelines.

The default Nodes are the dataset node that provides information about the dataset and the time node that allows to move along the timesteps contained in the datasets.

The main types of Node that the user can add are:

• Slice Node, creates a slice selection of the dataset and related rendering pipeline
• Volume Node, creates a volume rendering pipeline
• Iso Contour Node, creates an isocountour rendering node allowing the possibility to change isovalue interactively
• Scripting Node, allows the user to define execute interactively an analysis code on the input data or use one of the predefined scripts

You can add a Node using the menu Add.

Collection of IDX datasets

Sometimes can be useful to define a collection of IDX dataset to use for interactive visualization or analysis. MIDX is file format that can define a collection of IDX files.

Here are some examples:

• MIDX examples