Release notes and field guides for the Verbinal apps — native clients for the CANFAR Science Portal and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre.
Verbinal comes to Windows as a native WinUI 3 desktop for CANFAR and the CADC. Version 1.3.0 adds check-off Workflows, an AI assistant that can drive the app, a Direct3D 3D Cube Viewer, and a native Jupyter notebook with a local kernel — search to publication figure, without leaving the desktop.
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Verbinal for macOS 1.3.0 adds the Cube Viewer — a native, GPU-accelerated 3D viewer for FITS spectral cubes. Orbit a cube in Volume mode, measure it with WCS and click-to-probe spectra in Slice mode, and export a publication-ready figure — all in one native window on your Mac.
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Verbinal for macOS now bridges to your own Claude Desktop or Claude Code over the Model Context Protocol — so you can run a whole CANFAR research session from a single train of thought, approving the moves that matter. A look at the new AI assistant integration, the control model behind it, and an end-to-end research workflow.
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