This Autumn Comet Technologies Canada Inc. announced the launch of Dragonfly 3D World 2025, a major software upgrade that redefines how scientists and engineers explore, analyze, and quantify complex 3D image data.
With its new high precision surface determination, faster GPU accelerated performance, advanced one-click AI segmentation, and next-generation visualization tools, 3D World 2025 delivers a powerful combination of speed, precision, and usability for applications in materials science, life sciences, electronics, additive manufacturing, automotive, and beyond.
Smarter Segmentation. Deeper Insight.
Segmentation lies at the heart of image analysis and 3D World raises the standard once again. The newly integrated Meta AI’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) brings one-click annotation to even the most complex objects, from microstructures to biological tissues. By adapting across imaging modalities, SAM enables users to identify and isolate meaningful features instantly, without manual thresholding or model training.
“This release marks a major leap forward in segmentation automation,” says Joscha Malin, Director of Software Solutions at Comet. “Dragonfly 2025 helps our users spend less time preparing data and more time interpreting it — driving faster decisions and more accurate results.”
Precision that Reaches Beyond the Pixel
When it comes to quantitative measurement, accuracy starts at the surface. 3D World 2025 introduces a redesigned Surface Determination engine, now capable of sub-voxel precision. This advancement enables highly accurate surface and mesh extractions - a critical step for geometric metrology, roughness analysis, and dimensional validation.
Combined with new 3D rendering modes, users can visualize internal and external structures with photorealistic clarity, making even the smallest details measurable, shareable, and ready for publication.
Accelerated Workflows for Modern Research and Manufacturing
Whether analyzing thousands of CT slices or processing terabytes of microscopy data, performance defines productivity.
3D World 2025 introduces GPU-accelerated filtering, denoising, and skeletonization that deliver a performance improvement of as much as 100x over CPU processing. For instance, a Canny filter applied to a 10243 USHORT dataset is completed in under 1.4 seconds on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, compared to over 55 seconds on an Intel i7-13700K CPU. Together with macro automation and upcoming Auto Executor add-ins, this release empowers users to build fully reproducible, high-throughput pipelines that scale from single-lab experiments to industrial inspection lines.
This leap in efficiency helps both research teams and manufacturers achieve faster validation cycles, improved quality control, and deeper data-driven understanding of materials and components.
Setting the Standard in 2D, 3D, and 4D Image Analysis Worldwide
Dragonfly has long defined the benchmark for advanced image processing and quantitative analysis. Trusted by global leaders in X-ray CT and X-ray microscopy, the software is relied upon by industry innovators such as Comet Yxlon, Zeiss, Tescan, Rigaku, and Brucker, as well as by leading research institutions worldwide.
By powering inspection and visualization software for major OEMs, Dragonfly technology has become the analytical backbone of modern imaging - supporting applications in materials research, electronics, additive manufacturing, and life sciences.
With the release of 3D World 2025, Dragonfly strengthens its leadership position, delivering tools that drive faster insight, greater precision, and smarter automation across the global imaging community.
Reference: https://comet.tech/
