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Microscopy in Blender

This is a project building bioimage support for the open source software blender. This currently exists as the Blender add-on Microscopy Nodes, previously named tif2blender. This is able to easily load tif files as volumetric objects in Blender.

Please make some pretty figures with this add-on! If you post using this addon on social media please either tag me (@GrosOane on twitter) or use hashtag #microscopynodes.

Current Features

Microscopy Nodes supports:

  • up to 5D (up to tzcyx in any axis order) tifs and OME-Zarr files can be loaded.
  • Channel interface to define how to load data
  • Replacing a pyramidal dataset with it's higher resolution version
  • Accurate scale bars
  • Load per-index label masks
  • Lazy loading of giant files (no data is loaded in RAM outside what's rendered)

Get Started!