Guides

Task-oriented walkthroughs for each part of mudm-tools. Pick the guide that matches your data and goal:

Guide	Use it when you want to…
2D Tiling	Turn GeoJSON / Parquet point & polygon data (e.g. spatial transcriptomics) into PBF/MVT vector tiles and tiled Parquet, with the Rust StreamingTileGenerator2D.
3D Tiling	Turn OBJ meshes (neurons, organelles, whole brains) into OGC 3D Tiles (GLB), PBF3, tiled Parquet, or Neuroglancer, with the Rust StreamingTileGenerator — or the pure-Python TileGenerator3D.
Format Converters	Go straight from a Xenium / OBJ / GeoJSON source directory to tiled output with one convert() call or a CLI command.
Neuroglancer Export	Publish precomputed meshes, skeletons (incl. SWC neuron morphologies), and annotations for the Neuroglancer viewer — loose or uint64_sharded_v1.
GeoParquet & glTF	Round-trip a muDM collection to GeoParquet/Arrow, or export it as a single glTF/GLB file.
OME-NGFF Integration	Understand the design argument for bridging OME-NGFF arrays with TileJSON + muDM vector tiles (conceptual note, not a how-to).
Legacy Pipeline	Work with the pre-Rust pure-Python TileWriter/TileReader/mudm2vt path.

Not sure where to start?

Run through Getting Started first — it takes you from install to tiles to a live viewer. Then come back here for the deep dive on your format. For exact signatures, see the Python API reference and the CLI reference.