nothing, just look at imagej and you(Rasband) with reverence
I know imagej and Rasband in a book wrote by Wilhelm Burger and Mark Burge many years ago. and I became a big funs of imagej.
It's between ps, gimp and opencv. Programers can add plugins, then any no-programer can use it. And I also find something imperfect, eg. we must write algrithm pixel by pixel, and there is no criterion to write a plugin, so many algrithm are mixed in the plugin with ui, we can not call it somewhere other.
I know imagej team improve those in imagej2, and imagej2 implements many thought I think befor. It 's perfect. I see, the imagej1 also update now and then. could you tell me what you are doing on imagej1?
And in the past few years, I found python, and I like it's simple gramma, And there is so many liberies could be used, especially in imageprocess. scipy.ndimg, scikit-image, and the third-part libraries such as opencv, itk..., and many ml method, tesorflow, pytorch... and we can use matplotlib, vtk, mayavi draw beautiful 2d/3d figure esaily.(witch java do hardly). but there is no interactive framework like imagej, so only programer can use these. so in the last year, I wrote a pythonnic imagej called imagepy. I know imagej2 supports python and can glue with opencv, itk, but I think a pure python framework is more directly, all the liberies are based on Numpy, So the framework could be build esaily, and extended esaily.
I wrote to you to thanks your work, witch leed me go forward. and if you have time, have a look imagepy. then give me some advice what to do next. At last, may I venture to invite you join imagepy orgnization?