What inspired this Wish List Request?
Preparing for a customer demo with a group interested in doing image analysis in JMP.
Please describe the new or improved feature or solution you would like to see.
The ruler tool should be a slam dunk for simple image measurements in JMP. It's missing important capabilities to make it functional for anything beyond geographic measurements. To correct this two things need to be addressed:
1. The ability to put in a custom image scale. In the example image, I should be able to use the ruler to measure the scale bar, and then perform an action (right click context menu maybe?) to tell JMP that distance is 20um. JMP would then know that scale and report future measurements in that graph using the appropriate scaling factor.
2. The ruler needs to be persistent or have an option to automatically create an annotation with the measured distance and a line showing where the measurement was taken.
3. We really need an "image window" like what John Ponte created with his image analyzer add-in.
What would the value be to you and/or other users if this new feature is provided?
These capabilities are foundational for us to say that we have image analysis in JMP. There are customers that have lots of images, but most of them do work on one or two images and simply measure features in those images.
Is this an external customer request?
Related to a customer pain point at Corning. I have encountered this several times over the years at various accounts.
Is there a competitive software package that has this feature or solution that we should be aware of?
ImageJ is the standard. But it's a lot to learn to do this basic stuff. There is a gap we can fill here.
Will this impact a renewal, expansion, or adoption at a customer, and does this put an account at risk if we do not address this?
This is an area that we can provide a simple path for expansion within a customer. We are ~80% of the way there.
