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The amira® software offers fascinating new opportunities to all users working with three-dimensional data. With unmatched interactive speed and visual quality, amira allows the user to explore complex 3D data such as scalar and vector fields, polygon and finite element models, scattered data, and much more. Advanced visualization techniques such as efficient polygon viewing, iso-surfacing, oblique slicing and clipping, pseudo-coloring, direct volume rendering, flow visualization, and many more powerful modules are ready at your fingertips to unleash the full potential of your 3D data. By exploiting the latest graphics hardware, amira can display even very large datasets at interactive speed. In addition, amira comes with numerous tools for data analysis. You Dini Equation - Color-coded visualization can easily probe data, measure distances, regions, and volumes, of a parametric surface generated with a and perform statistical analysis on multiple regions of interest. custom script object. amira provides the complete set of powerful tools for generation and post-processing of accurate 3D polygon models as well as finite Fast and accurate 3D visualization element meshes for simulation, engineering, planning, and teaching. Furthermore, amira offers excellent presentation support. You can easily create snapshots, export movie files, and create truly three- Measure, analyze, and probe dimensional presentations by exploiting advanced stereoscopic your data display technology. All this functionality is available through amira's user-friendly interface, offering efficiency and ease-of-use to researchers, Easy to learn, easy to use students, and all professionals working with 3D data. graphical interface

Slicing and direct volume rendering of a processed seismic Full control over the application dataset. This kind of survey is typically done by placing a series of geophones, using a high-intensity sound source, through built-in scripting interface and recording the reflections collected by the geophones. Courtesy of Landmark Graphics Corp. Create spectacular presentations by exporting movie files and high-resolution images

Allows the flexibility of working with any platform from PCs to high-end graphics workstations and VR systems

Extensible: write your own modules ™ and I/O routines using amiraDev Mix of different visualization on a CAD model: wireframe, solid with transparency, and scalar field visualization. Extensible display environments CAD data courtesy of Volkswagen AG Key Features

Data Import Surface Rendering • Automatic threshold Load your data directly into Display and explore detailed 3D segmentation amira. A large number of surface models. A multitude of • Powerful segmentation editor standard file formats are drawing styles and color for interactive labeling of supported. (See complete list on pg. 4) schemes help to yield even structures • Polygon models and finite more meaningful and • Brush tool (painting) element data informative visualizations. • Lasso tool (contouring, • Scalar and vector fields • Rapid iso-surface generation intelligent scissors) • Scattered data formats • Robust and detail-preserving • Magic wand (region growing) • 2D image data and stacked reconstruction of surface • Contour fitting (snakes) image data models from segmented • Rapid processing of large image data • Easily add new file formats datasets by Interpolation and data types using • Import of polygon models between key slices amiraDev • Physically-based rendering of • 3D wrapping tool for organic semi-transparent models shape interpolation from very Slicing & Clipping : simulation of a black hole. • Wire-frame display few orthogonal slices Quickly explore your 3D Data courtesy of John Blondin, University of North Carolina • Pseudo coloring on the • Specific segmentation filters, imagery looking at single or surface (e.g. functional data) including island removal, multiple orthographic or oblique Display of partial surfaces smoothing, interpolation sections. Clip away parts of • • Both 2D (slice by slice) and your data in order to uncover • Powerful multi-style rendering 3D segmentation operations hidden regions. Volume Rendering • 4-viewer mode with crosshair • Rapid and accurate Volume rendering allows a orthogonal and oblique direct visualization of 3D image Viewing & Navigation sections data using a physically based Display single or multiple datasets • Semi-transparent slice light emission/absorption model. in a single or multiple viewer display • Interactive manipulation of windows, and navigate freely • Pseudo-coloring for transfer function (color + around or through these objects. overlaying sections with transparency mapping) • Multiple independent or Turbine visualization and real time probing using functional data synchronized viewer windows amiraVR extension. Visualization of pressure, viscosity • Intuitive volume editing by and turbulence datasets. • Display of iso-intensity lines drawing in the viewer • Arbitrary view points inside or Data courtesy of EDF Research Center • Interactive clipping planes • Arbitrary compositing of semi- outside the object Data Manipulation transparent volumes with • Support for stereoscopic viewing and Filtering other types of visualization • Resolution control and region • Restrict data display to user- Simple and efficient 3D image of interest defined region of interest (ROI) manipulation is possible through Maximum intensity projection • Intuitive transform editor a variety of digital filters, editors, • and data processing modules. • Advanced support for • Arbitrary combination of VolumePro® 500/1000 boards different visualizations in the • Filters: median, unsharp same 3D view masking, histogram equalization, Laplace, Gauss, Segmentation assigns labels to Data Analysis Lanczos, Sobel, and more individual pixels in the image Probing, measuring, counting • Interactive crop editor data in order to identify and and other statistical modules Industrial tomography: part of a motor block is being examined by CT scanning. Visualization by • 3D image stitching distinguish different materials or allow to quantify densities, iso-surfacing, orthographic slicing, and clipping. • Resampling and resolution structures. Segmentation is the distances, areas, volumes, and control prerequisite for accurate 3D much more. • Arbitrary arithmetic model generation as well as for operations advanced data analysis tasks. • Arbitrary contrast and color mapping, many predefined color schemes

Flow inside a turbine simulated on a finite element grid. Wing air flow simulation with colored texture (line integral The visualization combines multiple techniques, convolution) and animated illuminated stream lines. including pseudo coloring and stream lines. Key Features

• Histogram analysis Registration, Fusion, Industrial tomography: direct • Probing of data values in a Alignment volume rendering of a motor block acquired using a CT scanner point/sphere, or along a Align and register multiple line/curve datasets for comparison, • Measurement of angles, referencing, or fusion. Fuse distances, areas, volumes multi-modal data to increase the • Counting of connected amount of information and components accuracy in your models. • Statistics output for each • Align principal axes of • Efficient display as colored material and per connected multiple objects points or spheres component • Align surfaces with or without • Semi-transparent point display • Compute Hausdorff distance specifying corresponding • Arithmetic filter expressions between two surfaces points to select point subsets • Curvature analysis on a surface • Smooth interpolation between • Point set selection by • Correlation analysis tools two corresponding surfaces perspective drawing in the Spreadsheet output (morphing) viewer window • Terrain carrot: volume rendering with projection views. • Fusion of multi-modal data by • Analysis and extraction of Advanced Polygonal Models Volume rendering is used to highlight the water channel arbitrary arithmetic operations corresponding points in two Data courtesy of ENI - Agip Polygon post-processing tools clusters (e.g. in two time steps) generate compact surface Grid Generation for Finite Element Simulation • Re-sampling of scattered models of the highest possible data into a uniform grid quality, which is important for Finite element grids are a efficient processing and prerequisite for tasks such as Presentation accurate data analysis. mechanics and deformation Present the results of your work • Generate smooth and simulation, computational fluid in the best possible quality and consistent surfaces dynamics, and rapid in every state-of-the-art digital • Model simplification: prototyping. medium. intersection-free polygon • Generate high-quality • High-resolution tiled or off- decimation tetrahedral grids screen rendering for print- • Flexible grouping of sub- • Direct visualization of quality images functional data (scalars, Alpha channel output for Processed seismic dataset (slicing and direct volume rendering) structures and material types • Courtesy of Landmark Graphics Corp • Surface smoothing vectors) on the grid seamless integration of • Surface editing • Fast arbitrary sections and images in other presentation boundary visualization material • Mesh quality analysis • Flexible import/export of grids • Direct movie file export Time-Dependent Data and simulation data • User-defined camera Besides single time steps, time • Easy integration and control of rotations and arbitrary series of data can be processed external simulation software camera paths interactively. through amira script objects • User-defined animation of • Direct import of data time series or custom amiraDev modules visualization parameters • Jump to individual time steps Flow Data Scripting or play/swing/loop through sequence Advanced vector field Scripting provides an easy and visualization allows to display flexible way of customizing • Smooth interpolation between the results of flow simulation or amira and automate tasks without the original time steps measurement within the 3D the need for C++ programming. Large Data model. • Full control over all modules Even very large datasets can be • Interactive vector arrow display and viewers through Tcl script processed within amira at • Illuminated stream lines interface interactive speed. • Stream ribbons • Easy definition of script objects with their own Stream ribbons visualizing the fluid flow in a bubble cap reactor • Fast interactive OpenGL • Colorized flow textures (FastLIC) Data courtesy of Biofluidmechanics Lab, Charite Berlin (Axel Seeger). rendering exploiting latest • 3D stream surfaces graphics hardware • Easy integration with all other • Streamlining and customization • Import of down-sampled or types of data and visualization of routine tasks partial data from large disk • Automation experimental datasets to allow for out-of- Point Clouds/Scattered Data series core processing Process arbitrary functional data • Integration and control of • Quick and easy access to a given on a set of 3D points, e.g. external software packages region of interest (ROI) in coming from laser scanning. very large datasets Examination of nano-crystal structures using scattered data. Data by courtesy of Helena van Swygenhoven, Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villingen, Switzerland. Technical Information

Supported Platforms Other amira components: About amira® ™ • Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP amiraDev amira is a 3D visualization and modeling • SGI Irix 6.5.x This developer’s edition of amira allows you to system originally developed at the Department • HP-UX 11.0 extend the base amira application by adding for of ZIB (, Germany). Indeed - Visual Concepts • Sun Solaris 8 custom data types, visualization or processing modules, and input/output routines through a GmbH, a spin-off from ZIB, continued to • RedHat 8.0 well-documented C++ API. The object-oriented develop and maintain the product, based on amira requires a graphics board with OpenGL and open design of amira as well as the the toolkit from TGS. In 1999 acceleration and texture mapping capabilities. consequent use of powerful standard software Indeed and TGS entered into a partnership that ™ ™ Data File Formats layers such as OpenGL , Open Inventor , and made TGS the exclusive world-wide distributor ™ make amiraDev the ideal development and for amira. Since then the two companies have Geomety file formats: research platform for 3D data processing and worked together to make amira one of the Altair Hypermesh (r/w), AmiraMesh (r/w), visualization tasks. most efficient and best-selling visualization AmiraMesh LDD (r/w), AVS Field (r/w), AVS solutions in the world. UCD (r/w), binary raw data (r/w), DXF (r/w), amiraVR™ FIDAP NEUTRAL (r), Fluent/UNS (r/w), This version of amira brings the power of the TGS Corporate Background HxSurface (r/w), IDEAS universal (r/w), base application’s advanced visualization For over 20 years, TGS has been providing OpenInventor .iv (r/w), Plot 3D single capabilities to virtual reality. amiraVR features open systems-based 3D graphics software structured (r/w), STL (r/w), VRML (r/w). include head-tracking, support for tracked input tools for application developers and end users. Optional geometry file formats: devices as well as multiple video output TGS offers standards-based cross-platform Support for other file formats are available channels and multiple graphics pipes, multi- graphics and is the leading independent upon request, e.g. Radioss from Mecalog, threaded rendering, multi-wall support (e.g. for software supplier of graphics software tools ® ® Madymo from TNO Automotive CAVE or Holobench systems), integration of and utilities. user interface components into the virtual 3D Image file formats: scene, support for active and passive Technical Information ACR-NEMA (r), Analyze 7.5 (r), AnalyzeAVW stereoscopic displays, software soft edge More information and additional resources are (r), BMP (r/w), binary raw data (r/w), Bio-Rad blending, and much more. available on the web at www.tgs.com. Confocal (r), Encapsulated Postscript EPS (w), ™ DICOM (r/w), Icol Colormap (r/w), JPEG (r/w), amiraMol Look up frequently asked questions, Leica 3D TIFF (r), Leica experiments .lei (r), This amira extension adds support for import of application examples, customer spotlights, Leica Slice Series info (r), Metamorph STK (r), static and dynamic molecular data, e.g. PDB, technical papers, and much more. PNG (r/w), PPM/PGM/PNM (r/w), PSI (r/w), and powerful methods for visualization, PLY (r/w), SGI RGB (r/w), Stacked Slices (r), selection, and editing of molecules. By TIFF (r/w), Zeiss .lsm (r). combining these tools with the capabilities of Additional file formats supported the amira base system (e.g. volume rendering by the amiraMol extension: or vector field visualization), amira + amiraMol MDL (r/w), Protein Database PDB (r/w), is an outstanding platform for researchers in PSF/DCD CHARMM (r), Tripos (r/w), UniChem chemistry, bio-chemistry and the (r/w), ZIB Molecular File Format ZMF (r/w). pharmaceutical industry.

Finite element simulation/ visualization of a crank shaft

Visual quality check of car coat thickness for optimization of the coating process. Weather Data Visualization - Image courtesy of Inpro GmbH / Dupont Automotive Streamlines initiated in high potential vorticity region of a Coatings GmbH. CAD data courtesy of Volkswagen AG. hurricane, along with isosurface of potential vorticity. Created by Gordon Erlebacher (CSIT). Data courtesy of Xiaolei Zou (Meteorology). Visualizing differential equations: a dynamical system with a limit cycle (Brusselator).

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