Temporally-related images can be used to produce cine motion of real events or animation of graphical data. Image frames can be played back at 1 to 30 frames per second depending upon hardware. Sequences can be played in forward or reverse.
Spatially-related images, such as Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging or Confocal Microscopy can be displayed as a stack. Images can be stepped through one at a time or played as a cine loop. These stacks can also be used as three dimensional data structure for extracting and rendering 3D objects.
