Available software:

• The image acquisition, and the laser sheet displacement, are controlled by the software CivIT. It also performs and visualizes a simple CIV processing to check in real time the quality of the images. CivIT, written is C language, is commercially available from Fincham and Spedding.
• The CIV processing can be performed using the VSV interface, also commercially available from Fincham and Spedding. It contains a graphic interface written with the langage PVwave, also used to compute and visualize various flow data (e.g. divergence and vorticity). The CIV algorithms, called by the VSV interface, are in Fortran. The compiled (executable) version is in a directory CIVbin.
• The new algorithms described in Fincham&Delerce(2000) are now open source and available on the web site http://www.civproject.org . A web interface, CIVx, is also available which permits the computation distribution over a network of standard PC. The code, written in Fortran 90, is vectorized. It is deposited as a General Public Licence, and the sources can be downloaded from http://www.jarunee.org/civproject. The Web browser interface is written in the langage perl_cgi, so it can be used in a variety of computer systems (in particular Windows and Linux). At the Coriolis facility, it can be accessed with any Web browser at the address http://Z4/CIV. Online help is available. See also http://www.civproject.org/documentation.htm for various documentation.
• A user interface for image analysis and post-processing in MATLAB is also available. At the Coriolis facility, it is in the directory \\C-RED\civbin3\uvmat. To install it copy uvmat.fig (the graphic interface), uvmat.m (the associated functions) and uvmat_doc.html (the online help) in the current MATLAB working directory. Once it is installed, just type the command uvmat under the MATLAB prompt.