Welcome to SPIERSalign’s User Manual

[S]erial [P]alaeontological [I]mage [E]diting and [R]endering [S]ystem: Alignment and data-preparation utility

Main Coding: Russell J. Garwood Additional Coding: Mark D. Sutton, Alan R.T. Spencer Documentation: Russell J. Garwood, Mark Sutton, Alan R.T. Spencer

SPIERSalign is a stand-alone program which enables the user to align (or register) and crop a sequence of images (a tomographic dataset) prior to editing and/or reconstruction with SPIERSedit.

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Relevant references

Sutton, M.D., Garwood, R.J., Siveter, D.J. & Siveter, D.J. 2012. Spiers and VAXML; A software toolkit for tomographic visualisation, and a format for virtual specimen interchange. Palaeontologia Electronica 15(2): 15.2.5T

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Requirements
  • 2.1. System
  • 2.2. Data
• 3. What SPIERSalign Produces
• 4. Interface
• 5. Basic Aligning Procedure
• 6. Using SPIERSalign With CT Data
• 7. Starting SPIERSalign
• 8. Saving, Exiting, and Restarting a SPIERSalign Session
• 9. Navigating Datasets
• 10. Zooming the Image
• 11. Shifting, Rotating, And Scaling Images
  • 11.1. Shifting
  • 11.2. Rotating
  • 11.3. Scaling
  • 11.4. Reset
• 12. Panels
  • 12.1. Info Panel
  • 12.2. Markers Panel
  • 12.3. Crop Panel
  • 12.4. Auto Align Panel
• 13. Automated Alignment
  • 13.1. Semi-automated Align
  • 13.2. True Automated Align (Auto Align)
• 14. Advanced Navigation
  • 14.1. Hiding Images
  • 14.2. Propagation
  • 14.3. File Locking
  • 14.4. Swapping Files
• 15. Advanced Settings File Usage
  • 15.1. Loading Backups
  • 15.2. Constant Autosave
• 16. Update System
• 17. Keyboard Reference