---
name: "uvfconvert"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "imagevis3d"
version: "3.1.0-7+b2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/uvfconvert"
---

# uvfconvert(1)

convert files to UVF.

## NAME

uvfconvert - convert files to UVF.

## SYNOPSIS

**uvfconvert** -i *file* \[ options \] -o *output*

## DESCRIPTION

**uvfconvert** is a command line tool to convert data into UVF, the native format for the desktop volume rendering program **imagevis3d**. Unlike ImageVis3D, the tool can be run on headless nodes with no GPUs installed, and utilizes very little memory even for extremely large data.

## OPTIONS

The command line options of **uvfconvert** are:

- **-i *filename*, --input *filename***

  The input data set to convert.  Must be in one of ImageVis3D's supported file formats (see the "Getting Data Into ImageVis3D" manual).  For merging multiple data sets, this option is accepted multiple times.

- **-d *path*, --directory *path***

  Input data to convert, if stored as a stack in a directory.  Sets of images or DICOMs commonly come in this format.

  One of -i or -d is required.

- **-s *floating point number*, --scale *floating point number***

  Optional.  When merging multiple data sets, this scaling factor will be applied to all values in the second file.  Defaults to 0.0.

- **-b *floating point number*, --bias *floating point number***

  Optional.  When merging multiple data sets, this bias factor will be applied to all values in the second file.  Defaults to 0.0.

- **-o *filename*, --output *filename***

  Required.  The filename which will be generated.

- **--version**

  Optional.  Display a version number and then exit.

- **--, --ignore-rest**

  Optional.  Any arguments following these flags will be ignored by the program.

- ImageVis3D and all associated software was written at the SCI Institute, with

  ## AUTHOR

support from the NIH NCRR and DoE VACET programs.

Our primary source of funding comes from demonstrating that our software enables research.  Please contact us if you find ImageVis3D beneficial.