PALAEOWARE

SPIERS (Serial Palaeontological Image Editing and Rendering System) is a package of three programs for the digital visualisation and analysis of tomographic (serial image) datasets, such as those obtained from serial-grinding of specimens, or from CT scanning... The SPIERS software suite can be used to create 3D surface models from slice-based data. It is coded in C++, and employs cross-platform application framework Qt. The package comprises three applications, all of which are freely available and fully documented... SPIERSalign - A tool to allow manual aligning (registration) of images in serial datasets (not required for CT data), and to crop data to 3D region of interest.