parallaxinnovations/MicroView

MicroView is a 3D image viewer and analysis tool

Microview

MicroView is a 3D image viewer and analysis tool. It is written in Python and C++ and leverages a variety of open source tools including VTK, and wxPython.

Build Instructions

1. Download and install python

2. Install pip

3. Install virtualenv

4. Create a virtualenv environment:

virtualenv MV

5. Activate the newly created virtualenv environment.

6. On Windows, set needed environment variables:

   • if compiling with VS2010 or higher, read and follow this link
   • set language variable:

export LANG='eng_US.UTF-8'

6. Download MicroView dependencies that aren't easily installed with pip. For each of the following packages, download the installer and place in an accessible folder:

   • numpy
   • scipy
   • matplotlib
   • scikit-image
   • pywin32
   • Pillow
   • wxPython

Christoph Gohlke's repository is an excellent resource for Windows installers, especially for 64-bit architectures

7. Next, for each downloaded installer, run:

easy_install PACKAGE

Pillow may not install correctly unless an environment variable is set. Under cygwin, for instance, the following command must be executed before attempting to install::

export LANG='eng_US.UTF-8'

8. Install MicroView dependencies:

pip install -r microview.git/MicroView/requirements.txt