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C++ |
Uncompiled program in C++ |
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Fortran |
Uncompiled program in Fortran |
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Mac |
Macintosh |
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MacX |
Macintosh OS X |
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Win |
Windows |
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Linux |
Linux |
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Excel |
Excel worksheets and macros |
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NIH |
NIHImage macros |
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Free |
Freeware |
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Share |
Shareware |
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Com |
Commercial |
This program can be used to segment, separate and measure data volumes (3D images)
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IDL, All |
Ketcham, 2005 |
These programs can be used to combine serial section images into a 3D image.
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Mac, Free |
This is a very good freeware program. Many versions are available. |
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Win, Mac, MacX, Linux, Free |
This is a java version of NIHImage. It is being upgraded and maintained. |
Bitmap images (jpeg, tiff, bmp, etc) can be stitched together with these programs
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Win, Mac, Com |
The basic version is bundled with some digital cameras. |
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ArcSoft Panorama maker |
Win, Mac, Com |
Bundled with some digital cameras. |
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Win, Com |
Can stitch very large images |
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Win, Share |
Very good at stiching thin section images |
Images acquired by scanning photographs, rock blocks or thin sections must be converted to binary images before they can be analysed automatically. There are a number of commercial and shareware programs available including:
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Win, Mac, Com |
This is the classic image processing program. |
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Win, Mac, Com |
This program is very similar to Photoshop and comes included with Corel Draw. |
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Win, Share |
This program is quite compact and does a lot for a shareware program. |
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Win, Com |
This program is very good but expensive. |
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Lazy grainboundaries |
NIH, Free |
Automatic tracing of grain boundaries. Basel University |
Binary images must be analysed to extract textural information. These programs can do this.
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Win, Com |
This program is very good but expensive. |
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Win, Linux |
Commercial image analysis program |
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Mac, Free |
This is a very good shareware program. Many versions are available. |
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Win, Mac, MacX, Linux, Free |
This is a java version of NIHImage. It is being upgraded and maintained. |
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ImageTool |
Win, Free |
Freeware image processing, originally developed for biological work. |
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Win, Com |
Commercial image analysis program. |
Digitizing tablets and control programs
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Win, Com |
Made by Jandel Scientific. |
These special programs treats multiple images acquired at different orientations of the polarisers with computer-integrated polarising microscopy (CIP).
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Win, Free |
Petrographic image processing of thin sections using the rotating polarizer stage. |
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Linux, Free |
Segmentation of petrographic images acquired with CIP
microscopy. VOL30/v30-08-03.zip |
Miscellaneous programs and sites
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Mac, Unix, Java |
Calculation of liquid line of descent, density and other parameters (Ghiorso & Sack, 1995) |
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Win, Com |
Mineral data database: Mineral properties include chemical composition, optical, X-ray, physical, hand-specimen. Data ranges compiled from real analyses. About 6000 named and unnamed minerals. |
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Win, Free |
Distribution-free methods. Blocks, ellipsoids, massive and oriented textures. Log or linear size intervals. Choice of output graphs. Michael D Higgins, UQAC. |
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CSD - Excel spreadsheet |
Win, Free |
Parametric solutions -- Tony Peterson, Geological Survey of Canada |
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StripStar |
Mac, Free |
Distribution-free methods. Conversion of spheres only. Only uses fixed with bins. Not user friendly. M Strip, University of Basel |
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Win, Mac, MacX, Linux, Free |
This is a java version of NIHImage. Box-method fractals parameters can be determined. |
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Fractscript |
ImageTool macro |
A macro for calculating the fractal dimension of object perimeters in images of multiple objects (Dillon et al., 2001) |
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Fraccalc |
NIH |
M Warfel in (Dellino & Liotino, 2002) |
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Gaussian Diffusion-Resample |
NIH |
(Saiki, 1997, Saiki et al., 2003) |
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Win, Free |
Program for applying the inertia tensor and intercept method to binary bitmap images. Patrick Launeau and Pierre Robin. |
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Win, Free |
Ellipsoid calculation of 3-D Shape Preferred Orientation by combination of 2-D images Patrick Launeau and Pierre Robin. |
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Win, Excel, Mathlab, Free |
Programs to Estimate Compaction from Scanned Thin Section Images and Digitized Plagioclase Chain Networks. N H Gray and A Philpotts |
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Basel software package |
Mac, NIH, Fortran |
Package of programs and macros for computer-integrated polarization microscopy (CIP). |
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Lazy macros. |
NIH, Free |
Package of programs and macros for computer-integrated polarization microscopy (CIP). |
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C++ |
Software for multi-scale image analysis: The normalized optimized anisotropic wavelet coefficient method. Darrozes (1997) |
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Win |
Now done in CSDCorrections 1.4 |