SPIERS (Serial Palaeontological Image Editing and Rendering System) is a package of three programs for the reconstruction and analysis of tomographic (serial image) datasets, such as those obtained from serial-grinding of specimens, or from CT scanning. More details are available in the documentation for each program.
Change log:
The following has been changed since the last release.
SPIERSalign
- Bug fixes and code tidying.
SPIERSedit:
- Minor display change to the Output settings tab, to allow for better alignment on all screen resolutions.
- Bug fixes and code tidying.
SPIERSview:
- Allowed screen capture to save in any locally-supported image format.
- Has an upgraded Scale Grid. With the following new features: 1) has all setting saved in the SPV files); 2) allows the minor grid lines to be turned on/off; allows minor grid line values to be turned on/off; 3) allowed the value font size to be altered; has a Scale Grid reset option; 4) will cope with scales between ~999m to 0.00001 um; 5) will change units accordingly at set break points; 6) major grid lines and values are now in bold compared to minor lines/values.
- … and several more minor bug fixes and code tidying.
SPIERSversion (utility):
- Small utility now packaged with SPIERS to show the current internal version number of .spv, .sp2, .vaxml files. This is to aid identification of older SPIERSedit/view written files for testing compatibility of newer SPIERS versions.
SPIERS common files (used by all programs):
- Moved SPIERS program theme/styling to common files, along with the resource files.
- Moved common logos to this location.
- Palaeoware logo has been updated.
Online documentation here:
Download:
SPIERS can be downloaded from GitHub: https://github.com/palaeoware/spiers/releases
