Sunday, March 18, 2007

The Virtual Microscope

I have found another source for Very Large Images (or relatively large), NASA's funded project The Virtual Microscope.

It provides a large set of images, obtained through various microscopy methods, such as SEM.
The application is written in Java, with a nice small set of features (and an ugly look). The project images are delivered as Jars (aka Zip files), with subresolutions in subfolders, and individual tiles as single files. I have no idea why they did not use pyramidal TIFFs.

I do not know the data license, so I will not post VLIV images created from theirs, but it is easy to convert the Jars to single TIFFs suitable for VLIV.

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