Matt and Marcel,
I think you have provided a sufficient discussion of imaging capabilities that we can Imaging to the scope, especially since I know how much tech are in both DAWNSci and Bio7 for dealing with images.
I wanted to address your emails collectively since I think the proposed capabilities intersect and/or complement each other. At this point I am not looking to define a single architecture, but to collect existing viz technologies in the SWG under one project. The very next step after we get an initial contribution composed of these technologies will be to define the architecture and plan the (multi-institutional) work to implement it.
In the beginning we can have both the IPlottingSystem/IDataset infrastructure from DAWNSci and Marcel's ImageJ-based tools from Bio7 sitting side by side in the same project. Once we deal with all the necessary CQs and IP issues, we can look at the next steps, like building a bridge from Marcel's existing ImageJ capabilities to IDataSet or getting around the SWT_AWT bridge (which, btw, doesn't seem to be a problem on our Linux machines).
So, that all being said, can I count on a code contribution from each of you for the viz project (IPlottingSystem/IDataset from DAWNSci and Image-J based tools from Bio7) and list you in the proposal as initial committers?
Jay