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<h3> <img alt="" src="sun.gif" align="middle" height="98"
width="100"> SAOImage DS9 Version 7 New Features</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><b><b><b>Version 7.3<br>
</b></b></b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><b><b><b>64 bit Applications</b></b></b><br>
</p>
<p>DS9 now fully supports 64 bit applications across all
platforms. New support for 64 bit MacOSX Aqua has been added,
along with 64 bit Windows Cygwin.</p>
<p><b><b><b>2D Plots</b></b></b></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>New and improved GUI<br>
Support for data set legend<br>
Improvements in rendering<br>
Error bar caps are now supported</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><b><b><b>Mouse Mode</b></b></b></p>
<p>The default mouse mode is now <b><tt>NONE</tt></b> and not <b><tt>REGION</tt></b>
or <b><tt>POINTER</tt></b>. This prevents unwanted region
creation went bringing the DS9 window to the front in most
Window managers.</p>
<p><b><b><b>Other Enhancements</b></b></b></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>Improved rendering of rotated text<br>
Support for ENVI data format<br>
3D Image caching<br>
3D Background Image rendering<br>
Dramatic improvements in analysis speed of large 3D data sets<br>
New Segment region</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><b><b>Version 7.2<br>
</b></b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>FITS</b></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>DS9 now fully supports complex FITS images such as data
cubes, multiple extension data cubes, mosaics, RGB images, and
3D images. In addition, DS9 can be use to create complex FITS
images from multiple FITS files and other image formats.
Furthermore, complex FITS images can be easily disassembled
into individual images and saved in FITS or other image
formats.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Common API</b></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>XPA and SAMP now share the same API as the command line
interface. Backward compatibility is maintained to previous
versions of DS9.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Other Enhancements</b></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>More robust handling of SEGV and SIGBUS events<br>
DS9 now distinguishes between BLANK/NAN/INF values<br>
<b>saveimage</b> now supports EPS<br>
Support for NRRD (Nearly RAW Raster Data) data format<br>
Added support for exporting RGB images in TIFF, JPEG, or PNG<br>
Improvement for FITS compression support<br>
Released under GPL v3<br>
</blockquote>
<b><b> </b></b>
<p><b>Version 7.1<br>
</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Catalog Matching</b><br>
</p>
<p> DS9 now supports catalog matching. From the Catalog menu
option, the user selects two currently loaded catalogs, an
error radius, and matching function. The user may request all
sources that are present in both catalogs, or in one catalog
and not in the other. Each catalog need not to be specified in
the same world coordinate system.<br>
</p>
<p><b>Enhanced Plot Tool</b><br>
</p>
<p> In addition to a Line Plot Tool, DS9 now supports additional
Bar and Scatter Plots Tools. The GUI for the Plot Tools have
been enhanced and new features have been added including
statistics and data lists. Each Plot Tool supports multiple
data sets and custom plotting options.</p>
<p><b>Catalog Scatter Plots</b><br>
</p>
<p>The user may now plot the results of two columns of a loaded
catalog as a scatter plot. A selected region on the image will
highlight the corresponding row and plot point. Likewise, a
selected row or plot point will highlight the corresponding
image region.<br>
</p>
<p><b>Interactive Region Analysis</b><br>
</p>
<p> DS9 regions now support interactive region analysis. The
analysis tasks are enabled by selecting the Analysis Menu in a
region's dialog box. Interactive analysis tasks includes
statistics, data cuts in 2D and 3D, and radial profiles.<br>
</p>
<p><b>Other Enhancements</b><br>
</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>3D scaling along the z axis of data cubes<br>
Lock/Match Smoothing option<br>
WCS dialog support for non-linear projections such as TAN-SIP
and SCAMP<br>
Support for FITS files larger than 2Gb has been improved<br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Version 7.0<br>
</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>3-D Data Visualization</b><br>
</p>
<p> Previous versions of SAOImage DS9 would allow users to load
3-D data into traditional 2-D frames, and would allow users to
step through successive z-dimension pixel slices of the data
cube. To visualize 3-D data in DS9 v. 7.0, a new module,
encompassed by the new <tt>Frame 3D</tt> option, allows users
to load and view data cubes in multiple dimensions.</p>
<p>The new module implements a simple ray-trace algorithm. For
each pixel on the screen, a ray is projected back into the
view volume, based on the current viewing parameters,
returning a data value if the ray intersects the FITS data
cube. To determine the value returned, there are 2 methods
available, Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) and Average
Intensity Projection (AIP). MIP returns the maximum value
encountered, AIP returns an average of all values encountered.
At this point, normal DS9 operations are applied, such as
scaling, clipping and applying a color map.<br>
</p>
<p>Rendering time is independent of the actual data cube size.
Instead, the time it takes to render is based on how many rays
are needed to project the data cube upon the screen in the
view volume and the current zoom factor. The new module
requires no special hardware or graphical processor unit (GPU)
and the rendering time is adequate for interactive GUI
manipulation on most computers. The rendering engine is
developed using the POSIX thread library, allowing multiple
light weight processes to be spawned to complete an image in
parallel. The number of threads actually generated is a user
specified parameter. Since all modern hardware contain
multiple CPU cores, the default value is 8 threads. For larger
work stations, this number can be increase. For every doubling
in the number of CPU cores available, rendering times decrease
approximately 75%.<br>
</p>
<p>The new module is support on all hardware platforms currently
supported by DS9, including 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
Linux and MacOSX, and 32-bit versions of Windows and Solaris.<br>
</p>
<p>All 2-D graphics, regions, cross hairs, contours, and
coordinate grids, are applied to the current slice, which is
selected by the user. When the user wishes to match or lock a
2-D image and to a 3-D data cube, the current slice is used to
determine the rendering solution. The user can crop the data
cube for all 3 axes via the command line or the GUI. The new
module also supports FITS event files binned into a data cube.<br>
</p>
<p>All printing support has been extended to the new 3-D module.
The user may generate 3-D images in Postscript, JPEG, TIFF,
and other formats, just as in the 2-D case. Furthermore,
native printing is supported for the Windows version.<br>
</p>
<p>DS9 analysis macros have been enhanced to fully support the
new 3-D module, allowing the user to invoke external analysis
tasks based on the current view parameters and to return
results back into DS9 in the form of text, plot, 2-D image, or
3-D image.<br>
</p>
<p>Funding for 3-D data visualization was provided by the JWST
Mission office at Space Telescope Science Institute
(NAS-03127) </p>
<p><b>Color Tags</b><br>
</p>
The purpose of color tags are to highlight (or hide) certain
values of data, regardless of the color map selected. The user
creates, edits, and deletes color tags via the GUI. To create a
color tag, enter the Colorbar Mode, and click once on the
colorbar. This creates a default color tag. Click and drag to
change the values. Click and drag on one side to increase or
decrease the value. Double click to manually edit the values and
color. Place the cursor over the color tag and press the delete
key to delete it. From the color parameters dialog, the user can
load, save, and delete all color tags for that frame.<br>
<p><b>Regions<br>
</b></p>
Regions now support analysis tasks unique to each region type.
In the menu of the region dialog, the <tt>Analysis</tt> menu
will contain any type specific analysis tasks. The <tt>Circle</tt>,
<tt>Ellipse</tt>, <tt>Box</tt>, <tt>Polygon</tt>, and <tt>Point</tt>
regions now support interactive 1-D cuts along the 3rd axis of
3-D data cubes. The <tt>Line</tt>, <tt>Vector</tt>, and <tt>Projection</tt>
regions support 2-D cuts through the current slice of 2-D and
3-D data. The <tt>Auto Plot</tt> option under the regions
preferences can be used to specify if a plot is automatically
generated when the region is created.<br>
<p><b>Analysis<br>
</b></p>
DS9 analysis macros have been enhanced to fully support the new
3-D module, allowing the user to invoke external analysis tasks
on the current slice of 3-D data cube. The macro <tt>$z</tt> is
now supported for 3-D data. In support of <tt>Funtools</tt>,
the <tt>PLANE</tt> keyword is supported.<br>
<p><b>Slice</b><br>
</p>
DS9 now allows the user to load a 3-D data cube one slice at a
time via the GUI or from the command line. Use the option <tt>-slice
</tt>to specify that all following 2-D files are to be
interpreted as a slice of a 3-D data cube.<br>
<p><b>Photo</b><br>
</p>
DS9 can now load images in TIFF, JPEG, and PNG file format
directly. When loaded into a <tt>Frame</tt>, the average of the
luminosity is used. When loaded into a <tt>Frame RGB</tt>, each
channel is loaded directly. Use the <tt>-photo</tt> command
line option to specify that all following files are to be
interpreted as a photo image.<br>
<p><b>Export</b><br>
</p>
DS9 will export the current image in TIFF, JPEG, or PNG file
format with the current colorbar parameters applied. The entire
image is exported (not just the visible portion) at the native
resolution.<br>
<p><b>Lock/Match</b><br>
</p>
The support for the Lock/Match functionality of DS9 has been
greatly enhanced. The user may choose to lock/match frames, the
cross hair, cropping, the current slice, binning parameters,
scale parameters, or color map parameters.<br>
<p><b>Crop<br>
</b></p>
DS9 now supports cropping the current image, via the GUI,
command line, or XPA/SAMP in both 2-D and 3-D. The user may
specify a rectangular region of the image data as a center and
width/height in any coordinate system via the Crop Dialog, or
can interactively select the region of the image to display by
clicking and dragging while in Crop Mode. For 3-D frames, the <i>shift-click</i>
to change the front clip plane, and <i>control-click</i> to
change the back clip plane. From the command line, cropping
parameters can be specified in IRAF format.<br>
<p><b>ASINH Scale<br>
</b></p>
A new scale function has been added, <tt>ashinh</tt>, based on
the arc sinh function. This new function has similar properties
as the <tt>log</tt> function, with <tt>a=10</tt>.<br>
<p><b>All new GUI<br>
</b></p>
<p>DS9 now supports basic GUI elements (buttons, menus, etc) via
the native window manager API. Each port of DS9 will have a
native look and feel of each hardware platform. DS9 will take
advantage of the current user selected <i>Theme </i>if
supported by the native windowing system.<br>
</p>
<p><b>Postscript</b><b><br>
</b></p>
DS9 now generates identical postscript code for a particular
image, regardless of which hardware platform was used to
generate the image.<br>
<p><b>Catalogs</b><b><br>
</b></p>
The user may now specify coordinates in any equatorial system
(not just FK5) for a catalog search and receive results in any
equatorial system, to be plotted or saved. Local catalogs in any
equatorial system are now supported.<br>
<p><b>New WCS support</b><br>
</p>
<p>New WCS support for non-FITS WCS projections have been added
to DS9: TNX, ZPX, SCAMP, SIP and HEALPIX. The keyword
WCSDEP is now supported.<br>
</p>
<p>Enhancements and improvements have been made in the support
for the following FITS WCS projections: COD, COO, COE, COP,
ZEA, and CAR.<br>
</p>
<p>DS9 now supports non-equatorial long/lat coordinate systems
in the form of xLON/xLAT and xyLN/xyLT. This includes solar
WCS HPLN/HPLT, HGLN/HGLT, and HRLN/HRLT systems.<br>
</p>
<p>DS9 now fully supports multiple alternative celestial WCS, if
specified. All cut/paste/copy operations, catalog, image
server, contour, regions, and coordinate grids will now use
the default WCS as selected by the user, via the WCS menu
item.<br>
</p>
<p><b>HEALPIX</b><br>
</p>
<p>DS9 now supports native HEALPIX maps, in both FITS binary
table and ascii table form. Any table with keyword
PIXTYPE=HEALPIX or NSIDE=x will be processed as an HEALPIX
image. The user may specify HEALPIX parameters within the file
specification to indicate RING (default) or NESTED order,
Coordinate System (default is Unknown), Quadrant
(default is first), and Equator (default), North, or South
layout. The appropriate WCS is generated for the image.<br>
</p>
<p><b>External Analysis</b><b> Files<br>
</b></p>
DS9 will now look for external analysis files in the following
locations at start up: the current directory, <tt>$HOME/bin,
/usr/local/bin</tt>, <tt>/opt/local/bin,</tt> and <tt>/soft/saord/bin</tt>
in the form of <tt>*.ds9</tt>. If found, they will be
automatically loaded. Users may disable this feature via the
presences analysis panel. DS9 will continue to load <tt>ds9.ans</tt>
and <tt>ds9.analysis</tt> if found, and users specified
analysis files as before. DS9 will verify that the same analysis
file is not loaded twice to avoid duplication of analysis menus.
</blockquote>
<p><b> For more detailed information, Please see <a
href="release/r7.0.html">Release Notes</a></b></p>
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