NiiVue: minimal, modular, fast WebGL visualization

Title

NiiVue: minimal, modular, fast WebGL visualization

Leaders

• Chris Drake (@cdrake)
• Taylor Hanayik (@hanayik)
• Chris Rorden (@neurolabusc)

Collaborators

• Nell Hardcastle (@nellh),
• Paul Taylor (@mrneont),
• Daniel Glen (@afni-dglen),
• Anthony Androulakis (@AnthonyAndroulakis),
• Soichi Hayashi (@soichih)

Brainhack Global 2021 Event

Brainhack Washington DC

Project Description

• Popular tools like AFNI, FreeSurfer, FSL, SPM use legacy visualization methods.
• MRIcroGL and Surfice leverage modern graphics shaders, but are not cloud ready.
• Most cloud ready tools are dormant, rely on legacy methods, require many dependencies and do not provide domain specific features.
• There is a niche for a minimal, modular, modern domain-specific tool.

Link to project repository/sources

• Code: https://github.com/niivue/niivue
• Demos: https://niivue.github.io/niivue/

Goals for Brainhack Global

• Close an existing issue.
• Propose a new issue: feature request, bug report, etc.
• Leverage NiiVue for another BrainHack.
• Create example in your favorite framework (Angular, React, Vue, Svelte, Jupiter, etc)

Good first issues

• Close an existing issue.
• Propose a new issue: feature request, bug report, etc..
• Leverage NiiVue for another BrainHack.
• Create example in your favorite framework (Angular, React, Vue, Svelte, Jupiter, etc)

Communication channels

Github issue or BrainHack lattermost or slack.

Skills

• Javascript: basic
• Python (for framework): basic
• WASM: advanced
• GLSL/WebGL: advanced
• FSL, AFNI, FreeSurfer, SPM experience to identify new niches: basic

Onboarding documentation

• Documentation

What will participants learn?

• Advanced visualization

Data to use

• Main NiiVue page includes test data. Can load links from OpenNeuro.

Number of collaborators

2

Credit to collaborators

Project collaborators listed on Github.

Image

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Type

visualization

Development status

2_releases_existing

Topic

data_visualisation

Tools

AFNI, Freesurfer, FSL, SPM

Programming language

javascript

Modalities

DWI, fMRI, MRI, PET, other

Git skills

0_no_git_skills, 1_commit_push

Anything else?

No

Things to do after the project is submitted and ready to review.

• Add a comment below the main post of your issue saying: Hi @brainhackorg/project-monitors my project is ready!
• Twitter-sized summary of your project pitch.