Introduction

Note

The software is in active development, and while all precautions are taken to ensure as smooth an experience as possible, some issues might still occur. We would appreciate a bug report. Please see contribute for more detail.

iDaVIE is a data visualisation tool for 3D volumetric data, with analysis tools aimed at astronomical data in particular (e.g. spectral line data cube analysis, such as HI or CO data cubes). It renders 3D volumetric data as a cube within VR space. This provides profound insight for a multitude of scientific disciplines. While our focus has been on astronomical data and the included analysis tools are tailored to that domain, the visualisation on its own provides substantial benefit to other disciplines. This includes 3D models of neurological systems constructed from MRI images and 3D models of ice cores constructed from microscope images. See The multidisciplinary uses of iDaVIE for showcase videos of iDaVIE in use.

The mission of iDaVIE

iDaVIE is under development at IDIA. The iDaVIE application has been developed in collaboration with INAF-OACT . The specific goal of iDaVIE is to enable the interrogation of 3D data using virtual reality technology. For more details about the iDaVIE software suite development and all its aspects, please refer to Jarrett et al. 2021.

Codebase and releases

iDavIE is an open-source project. Its source code is available on the project’s GitHub repository.

Installation guides are provided in the section Installation and configuration, including the installation of the required VR environment.

If you want to build iDaVIE from source, please see Building iDaVIE from source.

Getting help

iDaVIE hosts a discussion forum on the GitHub repository, which is a good way to get in touch with other users of iDaVIE. We encourage users to ask questions and answer others in our community. Tutorials for basic movement and the use of the analysis tools included can be found at “How to” demos. The iDaVIE team welcomes any suggestion, feature request, or bug report to make iDaVIE better via:

See About iDaVIE for more information.