AirLayout

AirLayout is a Java gui wrapper for the AIR 5.2.1 (Roger Woods, UCLA) layout program.
Layout creates a 2D layout using images sampled at regular intervals from a 3D dataset . For more information about the AIR package see the AIR 5 homepage .
AIR documentation for the layout program

Invocation

java AirLayout

This starts up the java interpreter and runs the AirLayout application. You need to have set up your environment for java in order for this to work.
AirLayout is also available in the AirToolChest, GlobalWorkbench and GlobalDesktop computing environments.

java  AirToolChest

java  GlobalWorkbench

java  GlobalDesktop

AirLayout window

Information to be entered

Input
The name of the input file(s), directory, or file list.
Output dir/file
The name of the output directory or file. Default is current working directory.
Output file prefix
Prefix name to use in output files. The output file name(s) will be in the format prefix prepended to input filename(s). The default filename(s) will be input file name(s), stripped of any suffixes.
Layout (slices) Width /height
Number of slices in each row and the total number of rows in the 2D layout. The slices appear in sequence from left to right and from bottom to top.
Display slices starting from
Slices apear in layout from this position. The index is 1 based i.e a value of 1 corresponds to the first slice.
Display slices in steps of
The slices are sampled at this interval. A value of 1 results in all slices being displayed in the 2D layout.
View Montage
View / save the generated layout
Montage options

Images that get displayed or saved
Select the images that can be displayed or saved. The options are none, first image, last image or every nth image where n is a number to be specified.
Display Montage
Select this option to view the selected 2D layout(s).
Save Montage as JPEG
Save the selected 2D layout(s) as JPEG image.
Image quality (0-100)%
The quality of the JPEG image to be generated.
Image magnification(0-200)%
The magnification ratio of the generated 2D layout. The default is no magnification.

Overwrite existing files
Use this option if you want the program to overwrite any existing files with the same name as the specified output files.

Last updated Wed Jan 2 09:44:33 EST 2002