IMOD Version 2.00 or greater requires OpenGL and Motif libraries and 8-bit Color Displays. Hardware accelerated 24-bit graphics is recommended for viewing models. The absolutely required components here are Red Hat Linux 7.0, which includes XFree86 4.0.1 and the Mesa OpenGL libraries, and the OpenMotif libraries, which are easily installed for 7.0. With an Athlon processor running at 1 GHz and the Nvidia Ultra card, we have obtained graphics performance comparable to the 400 MHz R12000 SGI Octane with V8 graphics, and computational performance generally comparable or superior to that of the Octane. A development kit for using the imod model library and for writing IMOD plug-in modules is available to the general public.
Source code is available for approved non-profit organizations only.
For information on obtaining source code contact David Mastronarde. The current listing of all programs in the IMOD software package. Example images of IMOD model renderings. The complete IMOD User's Guide . A Tomography Guide is available with detailed instructions on building tomograms with the IMOD package, as well as a guide to joining tomograms from serial sections.