[ome-devel] adding woolz to bioformats

[Bill Hill]

After speaking to Melissa at the Paris meeting I've written a
Woolz reader for bioformats using the JNI. There are still a
few bits to complete and I haven't started the writer, but
the basics are there.

*Q* At the meeting we talked about some way of encoding the
origin (Woolz objects have an arbitrary, possibly -ve origin).
I can't remember, did it involve stage coordinates meta-data?

Test run:

bill at bill-lt% setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH \
               /home/bill/src/Bioformats/bioformats/lib
bill at bill-lt% ./tools/showinf ~/pics/artic_s4_02_06_06.wlz
Checking file format [Woolz]
Initializing reader
WlzReader initializing /home/bill/pics/artic_s4_02_06_06.wlz
Initialization took 0.038s

Reading core metadata
Filename = /home/bill/pics/artic_s4_02_06_06.wlz
Series count = 1
Series #0 :
         Image count = 1
         RGB = false (1)
         Interleaved = false
         Indexed = false (false color)
         Width = 424
         Height = 199
         SizeZ = 1
         SizeT = 1
         SizeC = 1
         Thumbnail size = 128 x 60
         Endianness = motorola (big)
         Dimension order = XYZCT (certain)
         Pixel type = uint8
         Valid bits per pixel = 8
         Metadata complete = false
         Thumbnail series = false
         -----
         Plane #0 <=> Z 0, C 0, T 0


Reading pixel data (0-0)
         Read 1/1 planes (100%)
[done]
0.027s elapsed (27.0ms per plane)

Launching image viewer

Reading global metadata

Reading metadata

Cheers,
Bill
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