3Dscript.server: true server-side 3D animation of microscopy images using a natural language-based syntax

A Summary: Creating 3D animations from microscopy data is computationally expensive and requires high-end hardware. We therefore developed 3Dscript.server, a 3D animation software that runs as a service on dedicated, shared workstations. Using 3Dscript as the underlying rendering engine, it offers unique features not found in existing software: rendering is performed completely server-side. The target animation is specified on the client without the rendering engine, eliminating any hardware requirements client-side. Still, defining an animation is intuitive due to 3Dscript's natural language-based animation description. We implemented a new OMERO web app to utilize 3Dscript.server directly from the OMERO web interface; a Fiji client to use 3Dscript.server from Fiji for integration into image processing pipelines; and batch scripts to run 3Dscript.server on compute clusters for large-scale visualization projects.

Automated summary

Creating 3D animations from microscopy data is computationally expensive. 3Dscript.server is a software that runs on dedicated shared workstations, offering unique rendering features and intuitive animation description. It eliminates the need for hardware requirements on the client-side.