Personally, while technically correct, I find the concept that a 3-D image could be XYC or XYT or XYZ a bit too technical for this purpose. And if we wanted to speak this language and I think then there should be also 4-D and 5-D images and all the possible permutations that could mean.
What about keeping them as separate concepts:
Spatial dimensions: 2-D or 3-D
Time dimension: time
Channel dimension: channel
So the current Display of 3D images (channels) would become Display of 2D multi-channel images.
And for Display of 3D images (time, volume) I would probably make this separate Topics:
Display of 3-D images:
Ortho-slicing
Volume rendering
3-D animation (rotation, zoom)
Display of time-lapse images:
Videos
2-D time-lapse animation
3-D time-lapse animation
I know though that this is a huge debate and, e.g., the napari folks prefer to just want to speak about N-D arrays without attaching any semantics to the axes. So I am hot sure how to deal with this in this curriculum.
I think currently most image viewer and analysis software do make a clear distinction between X,Y,Z,T,C and thus I would lean towards also making this distinction.
Currently it looks like this:
And there also is this:
Personally, while technically correct, I find the concept that a 3-D image could be XYC or XYT or XYZ a bit too technical for this purpose. And if we wanted to speak this language and I think then there should be also 4-D and 5-D images and all the possible permutations that could mean.
What about keeping them as separate concepts:
So the current
Display of 3D images (channels)would becomeDisplay of 2D multi-channel images.And for
Display of 3D images (time, volume)I would probably make this separate Topics:Display of 3-D images:Display of time-lapse images:I know though that this is a huge debate and, e.g., the napari folks prefer to just want to speak about N-D arrays without attaching any semantics to the axes. So I am hot sure how to deal with this in this curriculum.
I think currently most image viewer and analysis software do make a clear distinction between X,Y,Z,T,C and thus I would lean towards also making this distinction.