<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello, <div><br></div><div>I am new to chimera, but have seen its capabilities for rendering 3D images of complex data sets, </div><div>and think that this will be an appropriate program for excellent image analysis for my 3D tomography data sets. </div><div><br></div><div>My data sets are in general binary format, (.raw file), 32 float, big endian, x fastest order for an x,y,z </div><div>data set of 128 x 128 x 128 voxels of grey scale information. I am using AVIZO and FIJI at present. Avizo </div><div>is expensive, and fiji is slow and reduces the data to 8 bit before rendering it, which I find unacceptable. </div><div><br></div><div>TO move to Chimera - I found the web page in the Users Manual that suggested </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><a name="newformats"><h4>ADDING A FILE TYPE</h4></a></span><div>But I am lost by the description of how to proceed since I do not have prior knowledge of python and how to do the mapping to CHIMERA (x,y,z) that is suggested. </div><div>I gather I need to write a python code - or numpy code maybe. Can you help or provide more context or a self-tutorial link so I can fill in the details? </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, </div><div>Carol</div><div><br></div></body></html>