Avizo

Avizo™ 3D Visualization Framework

Avizo offers a comprehensive feature-set which addresses all aspects of 3D scientific data visualization, processing, analysis, communication and presentation:

Scientific Data Import

• Image import
    • DICOM, microscopy, stack of 2D slices
• Structured/unstructured grids
  
• Support for procedural fields
  
• Surface and volume meshes
• Numerical simulation readers
    • Fluent ®, FIDAP®,I-DEAS®, AVS®, HyperMesh®, plot3D®, Tecplot®…
  
• Matlab
    • .m import/export
    • Surface export to Matlab
  
• SEG-Y for geosciences
  
• CAD readers
    • IGES®, CATIA® 5, STEP®
  
• Crash simulation readers
    • Madymo®, Radioss®
  
• Geometry
    • DXF, STL, VRML, .iv…
  
• Time series

Scientific Visualization

• Scalar visualization
• Fast display of grids
• Isosurfaces
• Slicing (orthogonal or oblique)
• Pseudo-coloring, splatting, plotting
• Vector visualization
  • Vector plots in arbitrary slices
  • Flow visualization
    • Line integral convolution (slices and 3D-surfaces)
    • Stream surfaces, illuminated field lines, ribbon
  • Stream lines with random seeds
    
    
• Tensor visualization
  • Iconic visualization of tensor fields
  • Eigen values extraction
  • Rate of strain tensor computation

Matlab Bridge

• CalculusMatlab module allows for connecting to a Matlab server and executing a Matlab script from an Avizo session.
• SaveSurfaceToMatlab module
• Reader/Writer for Matlab file format (.mat)

Segmentation and 3D Model Reconstruction

• 3D surface reconstruction through segmentation

  • Polygon mesh representing boundary faces
  • Automatic
    • Thresholding
    • Interpolation
    • Wrapping
    • Snakes
    • Correlation
  • Interactive
    • 2D/3D region growing
    • Lasso, brush
    • Intelligent scissors
    • Morphological operators
    • 3D clipping
    • Multi-view 3D operation

• 3D volume meshing

  • Volumetric finite element grid (e.g., tetrahedra)