AMIRA
3.1
1.
Platform, Price & Company
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Microsoft Windows 98,ME,NT,2000,XP, HP-UX 11.00, SGI
Irix 6.5.x, Sun Solaris 8, and on Linux (RedHat 8.0)
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Must contact Sales for Price.
2. Application Overview
- State-of-the-art
visualization techniques allow you to gain detailed insight into your
data. Graphics hardware is
efficiently utilized to display large data sets at interactive speed.
- Powerful automatic and
interactive segmentation tools support processing of 3D image data. Innovative, fast, and robust
reconstruction algorithms make it easy to create polygonal models from
segmented objects.
- True volumetric tetrahedral
meshes can be generated, suitable for advanced finite element
simulations. Simulation
results as well as other data defined on a variety of different grids can
be investigated using a large set of powerful visualization methods.
3. Examples/Samples/Demos
- Biology
- Medical Imaging
- Deconvolution
- Image Gallery
4. Additional Information
- Easy to use
- Amira
provides more than 135 modules to visualize, analyze and process your
data including:
- Slicing (Orthogonal
& Oblique)
- Pseudo-coloring on
arbitrary surfaces
- Colorwash
display
- Isosurfaces
on tetrahedral and hexahedral grilds
- Direct volume
rendering
- Line and point probe
- 2D plotting
facilities
- Illuminated field
lines
- Line integral
convolution
- View-dependent
depth-sorted transparency
- Data type conversion
- Reconstruction of non-manifold
surfaces from 3D image data
- Surface
simplification
- Registration/matching
of 3D images
- Amira
contains fewer but more powerful modules than e.g. AVS or IRIS
Explorer. This makes Amira easier to use while still preserving the
flexibility of a modular system.
In addition it provides automatic file format detection, easy
geometry handling; 3D viewers are tightly integrated into the base
system.
- Easy & Fast 3D Interaction
- The software design
makes fast 3D interaction possible.
Parameters, like slice numbers or orientations of cutting planes,
can be adjusted directly by clicking into the displayed geometry. Interactive transformation of
objects (scale, rotation) and editing of 3D objects are done
interactively in real time.
Thereby the user can achieve results much faster than with other
visualization packages. Amira is the only modular visualization system which
enables you to use the full set of Open Inventor interaction techniques.
- Powerful Visualization Techniques
- Innovative and
interactive visualization techniques are provided that allow the users to
explore their data very quickly.
Images produced with Amira are of high
quality. Physically correct
transparencies, pseudo-coloring via texture maps, optional vertex normal,
stencil-buffering, and many more advanced computer graphics techniques
ensure this.
- Extensible
- The object-oriented
system design allows for easy creation of new data types, modules, and
I/O methods. Develop your own
extension with the Amira Developer Edition, or
contact our experts for special purpose solutions.
- Truly Object-Oriented Design
- Powerful data classes;
easy-to-extend, standard modules work for customized user-defined data
types; both, direct data access and procedural data interfaces are
provided; TCL-command language; very flexible modules.
- Flexible Combinations
- Amira
allows the user to visualize an arbitrary number of data sets at
once. Different visualization
techniques may be freely combined in a single 3D view. Multiple viewers may be used to
analyze and compare different data sets. Different visualization modules
can be tightly coupled. For
instance slicing modules are able to clip the geometry of any other
module, or may operate on the same slice without z-buffer fighting.
- Animation Sequences
- Animation sequences
can be generated easily with Amira and can be
integrated into technical and marketing documents, presentations, local
HTML files, remote URLs or on-line training. An easy-to-use camera path editor
is included.
5. System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows
98/ME/NT4/2000/XP, HP-UX 11.00, SGI Irix 6.5.x,
Sun Solaris 8 and 9, Linux (RedHat 8.0 with
glibc-2.3.2.so or higher), and Linux IA64 (RedHat
AW 2.1)
- PC 3D Graphics Board
- 128 MB Ram (512 MB
recommended)
- P-III 500 MHz processor
6. Software Download (Demo)