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Hi Guy and others,

You missed one alternative :-)

Media Cybernetics has just released the 3D Constructor 5.0!
Our worldwide local partners will be happy to provide you with a
demonstration and loan this product for a few weeks.

The 3D Constructor is a very good price-performance package and
includes:
- 3-D display, interaction and visualization
- 4-D display and measurements
- Manual 3D measurements
- Volumetric measurements of 3D objects (3D Count/Size)
- Macro Programmability
- etc

See also http://www.mediacy.com/3d

Looking forward to your reactions!

Jos

Jos H.M. de Lange
Director of Global Sales
Analytical Imaging Solutions Group
Media Cybernetics Inc.
tel: +31 (0) 71 573 0642
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Subject: Re: Software advice ... try them out yourself for at least two
we eks (one month is better)


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Quoting Nico Stuurman <[log in to unmask]>:

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> If you follow up this (very sound) advice, Volocity is out.
>

Well, I had Volocity in my lab for a month (on a demonstration
Perkin-Elmer confocal) so if Volocity won't give a demo ask your local
Perkin-Elmer rep for one!

Do be careful with Imaris that you are getting the modules
you need.  A colleague of mine had a nasty experience that
way - a vital module was left out of his quote - he raised
the funding (and it was quite a large sum) and bought the software only
to find that it wouldn't do what it was supposed to do.  Imaris were
pretty unhelpful about it - just told him he needed to find another
$x,000 if he wanted to be able to use his software - and he had no way
to find that money. I'm sure it was an honest mistake or
misunderstanding but such things can easily happen with software that's
so totally modular and their attitude after it happened wasn't the best.

There are other options apart from Volocity and Imaris - Voxblast from
Vaytek and Auto-visualise from Autoquant are other examples that come to
mind.  Both these companies are willing, in my experience, to allow
demos for up to a month.

                                               Guy

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