AGAVE

Advanced GPU Accelerated Volume Explorer

AGAVE is a desktop application for viewing multichannel volume data.

AGAVE’s core viewing engine uses a “progressive path tracer”. During interactive use, your image will appear grainy at first, but will refine over time as the rendering system builds up more and more render passes. The speed of refinement depends on your hardware, the size and complexity of the image, and the AGAVE parameters you set, i.e., the faster your GPU, the quicker a rendering will resolve. GPU memory dictates the maximum size of the files AGAVE can load. As soon as you change any viewing parameter, including your camera angle, the rendering will start over.

If you use AGAVE in your research, please cite it.

Contents

• User Interface Overview
• Loading volume data
  • Open file, directory or URL
  • Open JSON
  • Recent
• Load Settings
  • Resolution Level
  • Time
  • Channels
  • Subregion
  • Keep Current AGAVE Settings
• Adjusting the camera view
  • Rotate
  • Zoom
  • Pan
  • Reset
  • Perspective/Orthographic
• Appearance Panel
  • Global Rendering Settings
  • Volume Scale
  • Region Of Interest (ROI)
  • Lighting
• Volume Channel Settings
  • Transfer Function Editor
  • Color settings
• Output: Saving Results
  • Quick Render
  • Render
  • Save JSON
  • Save To Python Script
• Render Dialog
  • Image preview
  • Output Resolution
  • Image Quality
  • Output File
• Camera Panel
  • Exposure
  • Exposure Time
  • Noise Reduction
  • Aperture Size
  • Field of View
  • Focal Distance
• Time Panel
• Python Interface
• Command Line Interface
• Citation
• Troubleshooting
  • AGAVE Log
• Preparing an AGAVE Compatible ome-tiff file with Fiji