Slicer Dicer's powerful 3D viewer.  It simplifies rotating, zooming, and other manipulations of your data scene

Slicer Dicer® is designed for scientists, medical professionals, engineers, and other technologists involved with complex data defined in three or more dimensions. Use it in the analysis, interpretation and documentation of these data on any reasonably powerful PC running Microsoft Windows 

Visualization

• Perspective view of data rendered on interactively selected orthogonal slices, oblique slices, blocks (arbitrary rectilinear sub-volumes), cutouts, iso surfaces and projected volumes (projected maximum, minimum, maximum absolute, or minimum absolute).
• Lighting model includes directional and non-directional (ambient) light. Light source can be placed anywhere.
• Optional annotations: caption, axes ticks and labels (default "pretty" ticks, or override to place ticks where you want them), color legend, data-cube outline.
• Text can be any size, font, style and color
• Animation modes: slices, space, time (any parametric dimension), transparency, oblique slice orientation, rotation .Built-in animation viewer supports speed and image size controls, single-step, forward, backward, loop, and back-and-forth modes 
• Select color scale from 25+ built in color tables, or import from palette file. Any data level or range of levels can be painted with an arbitrary color.
• Any data level or range of levels can be rendered as either opaque or transparent.

Ease-of-Use Use interactive "slicing and dicing" tools to create display objects.

Use Tongs tool to select and manipulate any display objects individually or as groups.

Paint Can, Eyedropper, and Eraser tools operate directly on data or color bars to add, select or erase color associated with any data value.

Distribute command moves selected objects to equally spaced positions.

Show/Hide and Transparency On/Off attributes can be toggled for any object(s).

Properties (size, position, and attributes) for selected objects can be viewed and edited.

Cut/Copy/Paste between documents.

Tools and commonly used commands are available from toolbars that can be floating or docked on main window frame.

3D coordinates and data value under cursor shown continuously in InfoBar at bottom of main window.

All values shown in units specified by user.Use controls in Color Mapping dialog to rotate, stretch, compress, translate or invert color scale interactively.

Multiple documents (representing one or more data files) can be open simultaneously.

Volumetric region of interest can be identified interactively and extracted for close-up viewing.

Data Mapping Options

Color scale applied to arbitrary dependent-variable range. Data volume can be scaled by arbitrary scale factors applied to each axis independently. 

Data volume can be rotated to any orientation. Interpolated data can be computed by either tri-linear (prettier) or nearest neighbor (faster)  interpolation.

Input Data Formats

File Formats: NetCDF (network Common Data Format), HDF (Hierarchical Data  Format), or any binary file holding data in array format with arbitrary header and trailer sections associated with each dimension. 

All standard data types supported: 8-, 16-, 32-bit integers, single or double precision floating-point real numbers.Select any sub-volume for viewing.

Each dimension can be decimated by any factor.

Files can be larger than available (virtual) memory. Only sub-volume selected for viewing is loaded   into (virtual) memory. 

AVI Animation files from any source can be opened and viewed interactively.

Output Formats 

Save Document (Normal or Compressed). Save Image (bitmap or HDF Image format). Screen image can be cropped arbitrarily. 

Save Animation (AVI file or sequence of HDF Image or bitmap format files). 

Print Image directly to any printer available on your system. 

Copy and paste image (bitmap) directly into external application (e.g., word processor, graphics program). 

Installation 

Distributed on CD-ROM. Floppy-disk version available on request. Components installed via self-installing executable.

Options include full installation or various partial installs that minimize disk-space requirements. Uninstall executable available to remove all components, including DLLs and program icons.

MediaT

he package includes a CD-ROM, printed User's Guide, and convenient product storage binder. The CD-ROM contains hundreds of MB of sample data, including the

National Library of Medicine Visible Man.

System Requirements:Slicer Dicer is true 32-bit application and is designed to work on almost any, reasonably powerful Windows 95 or NT system. Specifically, the target system must satisfy the following minimum requirements:·         Intel 80386 CPU or better.·         Video System supporting at least 256 colors and 640x480 pixels or larger. (Slicer Dicer is compatible with all color-palette modes, including 256, thousands, millions, and true colors.)·         Eight MB of available hard-disk space.·         A CD-ROM drive is highly recommended. The standard distribution medium is CD-ROM, but a floppy-disk version of the installer is available on request