[ome-users] Bioformats : 3D meshes, µCT and MRI data

[renaud.lebrun]

Hello,

I belong to a microscopy platform (http://www.mri.cnrs.fr ), and I 
myself am in charge of a X-ray microtomograph, which generates stackes 
of images (typically dicom or 3D tiffs) which bioformats manages well.

I got recently interested by the bioformats library and especially the 
OMERO project to handle data generated by the facility I use (image 
stacks) and derived data (3D meshes).

I saw that bioformats handles well data generated by Amira software, 
such as Amira project, Amira meshes and Amira images. I find this great, 
because this is typically the kind of derived data which are generated 
by users of µCT, CT, MRI and µMRI (and these 3D data acquisition methods 
are now commonly used by biologists).

I write you to know whether you plan to extend the bioformats libary to 
more standard 3D mesh formats (such as .ply format, .stl, .obj or .vtk 
), which are much more commonly used than amiramesh formats ? That would 
be extremely convenient and such features could potentially be used by 
many biologists.

I thank you in advance for your answer,

Best wishes,
Renaud