Whats new in Avizo 8

July 2013

2013 VSG, Visualization Sciences Group

Revised July 11th, 2013

Whats new with Avizo 8

Avizo XLab extensions

Enhancements and new products: XLab Thermo and XLab Hydro GPU acceleration

Avizo all editions

Enhancements, new features, performance improvements

Highlight: module finder, volume rendering, animations, surfaces, colormaps

Avizo Fire edition

Now also available on Mac OS and Linux

Enhancements, new features, performance improvements , new tutorials
Highlight: new extensive module set superseding Quantification Tools

Avizo Wind edition

Readers updated and improved

Avizo XPand

Changed supported compiler

This document illustrates the main enhancements in Avizo 8.
Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Avizo XLab extensions new products and enhancements

New products in XLab extensions for Avizo Fire:

XLab Thermo

Avizo Fire XLab is a software environment for research, corporate, and

service labs interested in accelerating sample analysis or material
design. Available options:
XLab Hydro for Absolute Permeability
XLab Diffusion for Molecular Diffusion
XLab Electro for Electrical Resistivity / Formation Factor
XLab Thermo for Thermal Conductivity

XLab Thermo Avizo Fire eXtension

Simulator for physical properties

Computes thermal conductivity directly from 3D label
image. Includes two modules:

Thermal Conductivity Tensor Calculation,

providing information along any direction of space.

Thermal Conductivity Experiment Simulation.

Fouriers law solver using a finite volume method

No need to extract a 3D mesh

Data: packed glass spheres ICMCB

Dominique Bernard

XLab Thermo Thermal conductivity

All phases conduct heat with
different local property
One temperature model:
continuity of temperature
at interface between phases
Determines temperature field
in the sample

= 2

: heat capacity
: temperature
: thermal conductivity

High
temperature

Then use Fouriers law for conductivity

: heat flux
: thermal conductivity
: is the temperature

Low
temperature

Avizo XLab
Simulation Stop and Restart
Resume computation from saved restart point

Interrupt simulation

Current field saved

Use saved field as input

Resume simulation

Avizo XLab
XLab Hydro GPU-accelerated solver

Dramatically speeds up computation by using GPU e.g. worth 10 x 8 CPU cores

Only limited by CPU memory still worth 3 x 8 cores with data larger than GPU memory

Avizo all editions enhancements and new features

Avizo All Editions

New Object Popup and Create Object Popup

Use as module finder

Replaces former object popup menu
and Create menu
Shortcut: Ctrl-Space with selected module
Search engine support keywords,
legacy deprecated names such as Avizo 7
Quantification module commands
Several menu levels + info column
Favorites, recents, editors, templates
Integrated help access

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New Tables panel
For spreadsheets
and analysis results (Avizo Fire)

Crop Editor enhanced

Autocrop default from range calibration

Enlarge/reduce

Colormap port changes

Local range by default

Auto-adjust by default
Note: project compatibility may require
disabling auto-adjust range in Project menu
New loadable colormaps

Avizo All Editions

Graph/tree view toggle button has moved

Warning dialogs can be disabled and restored

New module Tridelity View

Support for autostereoscopic

displays from www.tridelity.com

Avizo All Editions

Animation Producer enhancements

Double-click on time ruler sets current time

Double-click on a time line creates keyframes
Play speed factor
Choice of interpolation curves between keyframes
Linear interpolation for range of choices
Animate multi-options
Improved performance
Animations supported by XScreen

Avizo All Editions

Enhanced Plot Tool and Histogram

Show/hide ticks on axis box

X and Y offsets for Markerline label
Border color for histogram bins
Bins spacing for histograms,
Disable pan and zoom on Y-axis for histograms
X axis sync with histogram range
Gradient foreground color, cosmetic changes
Select legend font

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Enhanced volume rendering

New ray-casting volume rendering engine

(OpenInventor VolumeViz 9.2)
for higher quality/performance
Improved multi-volume support
Deprecated option advanced>optimizations,
no longer need to set Preferences for high precision

Reduced slicing artifacts

Note: rendering may differ from Avizo 7

Check Volume Rendering Settings and Preferences (LDA, Rendering)

Multi-volume improved

Avizo All Editions

LDA format upgrade

Border no longer used, for optimal loading and accurate extraction with subsampling
File conversion not mandatory but recommended
Recommended tile size is still 128

Avizo All Editions

New Volume Rendering Settings options

Ambient occlusion, Deferred lighting

Use sharp opacity curve

for ambient occlusion

In advanced settings

Ambien occlusion for more realistic global illumination

Composition - average

Average composition

Slice alignment - boundary

Best default for ray-casting, needed for ambient occlusion.

Avizo All Editions

New module: Voxelized Rendering

Voxelized Rendering

With ambient occlusion

With outline

Avizo All Editions

New FFT module

Replaces former Fourier Transform module

Avizo All Editions

Generate Surface enhancements

Performance improvement with multi-core parallelization

Option to fit surface to 3D volume edges

Option to smooth a specific material

Avizo All Editions

File format enhancements

New reader for Xradia TXM format

Note: only supported on Window XP/Vista/7/8

New reader for POS atom probe data format

New Avizo Binary Surface format, amiramesh-style

Export surfaces to Open Inventor ascii/binary, compressed/uncompressed

Avizo All Editions

Scripting: new Tcl commands

moduleApply: creates a module,

set its ports and apply it

# moduleApply <module> <portA> <valueA>

# Try <module> <port> getState for syntax details
# See also share/resources/helpers.rc0
moduleApply HxOrthoSlice data "foam.am" sliceOrientation 2
moduleApply gaussianfilter inputImage "foam.am"

Extract Subvolume and

Generate Surface setInteractive:
disable warning dialogs for batch processing

moduleExtender: adds a proc

called when a module is created

"Generate Surface" setInteractive 0

moduleExtender -name bluebox \

-extends "HxBoundingBox" \
-proc {$this options setColor 1 0 0 1}

Avizo Fire Edition - enhancements and new features

Avizo Fire
New: Avizo Fire available on Mac OS and Linux
Deprecated Quantification module
Still supported by scripts and projects for compatibility (Windows only)

Many new modules superseding commands of Quantification module

Image Processing
Extended image filters, extensive morphological tools, shading correction, etc.
Image Segmentation
Top-hat, watershed, separation, automatic and adaptive thresholding, etc.
Image Analysis
Individual and global image analysis, extensive morphometrics, etc.

The Quantification module and associated Result Viewer are still supported by scripts and projects for compatibility with previous
versions of Avizo Fire (Windows only). However it is highly recommended to migrate your existing script and projects to the new
available modules set, for benefits in performance, features, multi-platform availability and future compatibility.

Avizo Fire
New Visilog integration architecture
Avizo 7.x
Avizo 8 (script compatibility)
Quantification
module

Visilog ActiveX

Visilog result
viewer

Avizo 8
Module finder
Module

Module

Module

Module

Module

Module

Module

Module

Module

Module

Tables
& plots

Visilog proxy
Visilog kernel 6.9.x

Visilog kernel 7.x

Windows only

Windows, Mac OS, Linux

Avizo Fire
Performances benefits

Improved overall performance for labels and 16 bits grayscale

Watershed improved: much less memory needed, much faster.
2 modes available:

Repeatable: same result when run multiple times

Fast: aggressive mode can produce slightly different yet valid results

Other optimizations:
Gradient, Labeling (Quantification:label), Gaussian filter,
Non-Local Means filter, etc..

Properties of new modules

Interpretation port: 2D/3D

Neighborhood port: by face, edge or corner
Out-of-core processing:
Can input .im6 files as external data
Output port: to memory or disk
Enable with Tcl command: <module> outputLocation show

Avizo Fire
Improved module Interactive Thresholding

Compute module
3D preview
Range port

New module
Interactive Top-Hat

2-step wizard

New Top-Hat tool

in segmentation editor

Avizo Fire
New modules for image analysis

Global Analysis: overall binary image

Label Analysis: individual analysis (I_analyse)

Measure group selector

Access from port label measure group

New custom measure editor

Access from measure group selector

Avizo Fire
New analysis result viewer

Dockable Tables panel

Toolbar: copy to clipboard, export, sort, plot, pick
Statistics summary on top
Plot histograms for individual measures, or profiles per slice for global measures
Uses standard Avizo plot tool, with specific options

Avizo Fire
New module Analysis Filter

Filter results,
optionally label image
Edit arbitrary expression
Double-click on red cursor line
to copy value to editor

New module Sieve Analysis

Classify results and label image

Enter values or drag red cursor lines
to edit ranges

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New features (from Visilog 7.x)

Fiber orientation by block

Disk/sphere kernels
Enhanced gradient module
Enhanced Gaussian Filter
Curvature-Driven Diffusion
Flow Inpainting
Image Curvature
Etc.

Avizo Fire
New module Volume Fraction

Porosity of materials or phases,

with optional mask, per label or slice

New module Split Connected Components*

Splits largest components into separate volumes

*available only on Window

Avizo Fire
New and updated tutorials

All Avizo Fire tutorial updated

Advanced/multiphase watershed segmentation
Advanced surface and grid generation, pre-processing
More about image filters
More about label measures

New example demos

Reader for ANU NetCDF subset format

Avizo Wind Edition - improvements and new features

Avizo Wind
Updated and improved readers

ABAQUS Version 6.12

ANSYS Version 14.5
CGNS data base Version 3.1
LS-DYNA Version 970.0
EnSight 6 and Gold Casefile format
FIDAP 7.6
FLUENT Version 12.1
MSC.NASTRAN 2010
OpenFOAM, version 2.0
IDEAS NX Series 11
STAR-CCM+ 2.06
Tecplot file format, version 11.2

Avizo XScreen eXtension for all editions - improvements

Avizo XScreen
VRPN device drivers support

Avizo XPand eXtension for all editions enhancements and changes

Avizo XPand

Change
Avizo XPand now supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
(end of support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008).

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2013 VSG, Visualization Sciences Group