Imview: a portable image viewing and analysis application [LWN.net]

Imview is a multi-platform image viewing and analysis application written by Hughes Talbot. The software has been developed for multi-platform operation, it runs under Linux, UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS/X.

The list of Imview features and capabilities includes:

Support for many image formats.
Ability to display 2D images and 3D slices.
Support for TIFF stacks, animaged GIFs, and other multiple image formats.
Display of 1-64 bit pixel data in integer and floating point formats.
Inclusion of multi-spectral features.
Display of 1D profiles of 2D images and 2D profiles of 3D images.
Extraction of point statistics.
Inclusion of support for false color colormaps.
Manipulation of brightness, contrast, gamma, zoom, crop, rotation, and more.
Support for image upload via sockets and shared memory.

Some Imview online documentation is available, but it is fairly out of date. The FAQ page is available for common questions, and the screenshots page shows Imview in action.

Imview has been written in C++ and uses FLTK, the Fast Light ToolKit for GUI features. LibTIFF, LibPNG, and ImageMagick are required for building the software.

Version 1.0.1 of Imview was recently released, a version 1.1.1 is currently under development. Imview is available under the GNU GPL, the code is available for download here. Source code and precompiled binaries are available.

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