3Dscript - Create high-quality 3D/4D animations using a natural-language based syntax

In state-of-the-art 3D rendering and animation software the user typically creates an animation by specifying a number of keyframes. While intuitive, this approach becomes tedious for complex motions like simultaneous rotations around multiple axes, and even worse for accelerated and decelerated motions: The number of required keyframes increases, and creating them becomes hardly reproducible.

In 3Dscript, animations are defined by a syntax based on natural English language, in sentences such as From frame 0 to frame 100 rotate by 360 degrees horizontally ease-in. Smooth and arbitrarily complex motions and animations are accomplished by concatenating multiple such instructions.

Schmid, B.; Tripal, P. & Fraaß, T. et al. (2019), "3Dscript: animating 3D/4D microscopy data using a natural-language-based syntax", Nature methods 16(4): 278–280, PMID 30886414.

3Dscript is installed via Fiji's updater:

• In Fiji, click on Help>Update...
• Click on Manage update sites
• Check the box in front of 3Dscript
• Click on Close
• Click on Apply changes
• Restart Fiji