PRIMERVISUALIZING WITH IMAGEJ

Free image/video processing software creates vivid representations of time, movement, and data.

By Bob Goldstein

ImageJ is a free, cross-platform program for processing images and videos. Its author, Wayne Rasband, originally wrote it for use by biomedical researchers working with microscope images. But he designed it with an open architecture so anyone could write plugins to add new tricks to the program. As a result, its capabilities are constantly growing and improving, thanks to contributions from the more programming-savvy among its users.

But ImageJ isn’t yet well-known outside of the scientific community. As a scientist and fan of creative tinkering, I thought it would be fun to introduce MAKE’s readers to ...

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