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A "batteries-included" distribution of ImageJ :battery:
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[ Fiji Is Just ImageJ ]

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Fiji is a "batteries-included" distribution of

[ImageJ](http://imagej.net/)—a popular, free scientific image processing

application—which includes a lot of plugins organized into a coherent

menu structure. Fiji compares to ImageJ as Ubuntu compares to Linux.



The main focus of Fiji is to assist research in life sciences.



At the moment, the following platforms are supported:



- Windows Intel 32-bit/64-bit

- Linux Intel 32-bit/64-bit

- MacOSX Intel 32-bit/64-bit (partial support for PowerPC 32-bit)

- all platforms supporting Java and a POSIX shell, via `bin/ImageJ.sh`



The setup is as easy as unpacking the portable archive and

double-clicking the [ImageJ

launcher](https://github.com/imagej/imagej-launcher).



Fiji is intended to be the most painless, easy, quick and convenient way

to install ImageJ and plugins and keep everything up-to-date.



Usage

-----



Fiji is meant to be distributed without source, to make the download as

small as possible. In the basic version, Fiji is a portable application,

i.e. it should run wherever you copy it.



The starting point is the ImageJ launcher, which will launch Java, set

up the environment, and call ImageJ.



To pass arguments to ImageJ, just specify them on the command line.



To pass arguments to the Java Virtual Machine, specify them on the

command line, separating them from the ImageJ arguments (if any) with a

`--`.  In other words, if you want to override the memory setting, call

Fiji like this:



	$ ./ImageJ-linux32 -Xmx128m --



Open Source

-----------



We are dedicated to open source. Not only does open source allow other

developers to port the application to new platforms that the original

authors did not begin to think of, it allows scientists to study the

code to understand the inner workings of the algorithms used, and it

permits others to use the program in totally new ways, and enhance it in

all imaginable ways.



Therefore, the majority of Fiji is licensed under the GNU Public License

version 2. Exceptions are listed in the

[LICENSES](https://github.com/fiji/fiji/blob/master/LICENSES) file.



Fiji's source code is split up into a [main

repository](https://github.com/fiji/fiji), containing the top-level project and

support scripts, while all components live in their own repositories in the

[Fiji organization on GitHub](https://github.com/fiji/). As a rule of thumb: the

file name and the project name correspond pretty well, e.g. fiji-compat.jar is

maintained in [fiji-compat](https://github.com/fiji/fiji-compat).



Participating

-------------



[Pull Requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests)

are very welcome!



See the [Contributing](http://imagej.net/Contributing) page of the ImageJ wiki.



Authors

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* Fiji was created by

  [Johannes Schindelin](https://imagej.net/User:Schindelin).

  It is currently maintained by [Curtis Rueden](https://imagej.net/User:Rueden)

  of [LOCI](https://imagej.net/LOCI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

* ImageJ 1.x was created and is maintained by

  [Wayne Rasband](https://imagej.net/Wayne_Rasband).

* ImageJ2 was created and is maintained and actively developed by

  Curtis Rueden.

* For a list of most recent contributors, please refer to the

  [Contributors](http://imagej.net/Contributors) page of the ImageJ wiki.



Thanks

------



We are very grateful to Wayne Rasband, who is not only a very dedicated

developer of ImageJ 1.x; he also fosters an active and friendly

community around ImageJ.



We are especially grateful to be part of an outstanding

[community](http://imagej.net/Community) who is active, friendly and

helping to scientists understanding and analysing images every day.



Oh, and Fiji is also an island. We just wanted to let you know.