scatterBrain

scatterBrain is a software package for Small Angle Scattering data reduction (and instrument control) developed at the Australian Synchrotron. scatterBrain is a "rebirth" of the saxs15ID software developed at ChemMatCARS at the APS.

scatterBrain is written in IDL, and is cross-platform (Windows, OSX and Linux).  A manual for scatterBrain is being prepared, with an early draft available. 

Manual:  scatterBrainManual (PDF ~ 900kB) 

scatterBrain is distributed as an IDL runtime. This runtime include all the necessary parts of IDL required to run scatterBrain for a particular operating system, as well as the scatterBrain code in the form of a binary "SAVE" file. Installation is a simple matter of unzipping the archive and running the application (scatterBrainAnalysis.exe for Windows,  scatterBrainAnalysis.app for OSX, or the areavision script for linux). Future releases of scatterBrain only require the "SAVE" file to be updated, at least until a new version of IDL is released. scatterBrain can be kept up-to-date using the "Check fo Updates" option under the Help menu. This will check for a new version of the "SAVE" file, and give you the option of downloading and installing it. After which you simply restart scatterBrain. 

Note that if you already have IDL 8.1 or the IDL 8.1 virtual machine installed, then you don't require the runtime environment, you can simply download and the scatterBrain "SAVE" file. 

Downloads:

If you download one of the run time versions below, you should immediately check for Updates within IDL to ensure you are using the latest Save File (the runtime distributions aren't always kept up-to-date with the latest Save File as noted in brackets).

Note that runtime versions before 1.10 were incompatible with Windows 64 bit. Hence if you are trying to run on a 64 bit version of windows you should re-download the entire distribution, not just the save file. 

areaVision

Downloads:

Save File (1MB)

Linux (32 and 64 bit)

Windows