Dragonfly Interface and Tools
Dragonfly is a powerful, multifaceted software platform for processing, visualizing, manipulating, and analyzing scientific datasets acquired by CT, micro-CT, microscopy, FIB-SEM, and other modalities. Supported activities can be grouped under two basic concepts — visual display and object processing — and the application is designed in such a way that all of these activities can be accessed from the main application window. Tools to manipulate images and make basic measurements, as well as advanced functionality such as segmentation, are available in the panels on the left. Views of imported data and processed objects are contained within scenes in the workspace. Data properties and settings, as well as related process controls, can be found on the right.
The Dragonfly interface also includes a number of contextual windows and dialogs that provide access to advanced functions, such as image processing, aligning slices within an image stack, analyzing objects, and others.
Workspace
The Dragonfly workspace is flexible and gives you several options to work the way that you want (see Workspace).
The workspace can be divided into multiple scenes that contain different views of the objects contained within each scene. A scene can be as simple as a single view of image data or it can contain additional objects, such as annotations, regions of interest, and meshes. A scene can also be divided into multiple views, or segments, that display multi-planar reformats or a 3D view of the objects contained in the scene (see Scenes and Views).
Data Properties and Settings Panel
The Data Properties and Settings panel (see Data Properties and Settings Panel) lists the datasets and objects that can be shown in the scene views. For the selected object in the top section of the panel, the lower section shows related information, settings, and tools. Pop-up menus are also available that provide access to advanced features and tools (see Dataset Tools).
Tool Panels
The panels on the Main tab provide tools for choosing scene layouts and views properties, improving visualizations, and making basic measurements (see Tools Panels), while the panels on the Segment tab provide tools for creating and modifying regions of interest (see Segment Tools).
