AMIRA 3.1

1. Platform, Price & Company

· 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)

· Must contact Sales for Price.

• Template Graphics Inc. (TGS) : http://www.tgs.com/index.htm

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
• http://www.tgs.com/pro_div/vertical_paper/amira_vertical_biology.htm
• Medical Imaging
• http://www.tgs.com/pro_div/vertical_paper/amira_vertical_medical.htm
• Deconvolution
• http://www.tgs.com/pro_div/vertical_paper/TGS_example_amiraDECONV.pdf
• Image Gallery
• http://www.tgs.com/pro_div/amira_gallery.htm

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)

• http://www.tgs.com/pro_div/download.asp