[vtkusers] [DEMO] amira

[Sebastien BARRE]

Hi all

Well, I just fell into a visualization software that left me breathless 
(I've been playing with it for a couple of hours).

It's called Amira : http://www.amiravis.com/

There is a demo for download.

It seems to be internally organized just like VTK (object-oriented, 
pipelined, Tcl commands), but it's not as featured as our beloved toolkit 
(moreover, it's not open), but has interesting feature lacking VTK 
(tetragen, blazing hedgehog animation, etc.)

On the other side, it seems *really* fast, refresh rates seem better, and 
transparency is definitely handled better. Some of the tutorials are just 
amazing, and incredibly easy to manage.

And of course, it's a full featured GUI software. If only we could have a 
big and serious GUI front-end to demonstrate the power of VTK ;)

a) Download the stuff (oops, 24 meg for windows).

b) Look at some eye candies :
share/usersguide/AmiraIndexDemo.html

c) Then go for it.
      You might browse the tutorial, but here is my special selection.

Inside Amira : File -> Load :

share/demo/cfd/ :
	wing : click on "animate", enjoy :))

share/demo/medical/ :
	ctstack,
	gridcut : move the "translate" slider
	isosurface : move the "threshold" slider, click "do it" : it's fast !!

share/demo/medical/ :
	test all

share/demo/sunWind/ :
	magDipol: click on "animate", enjoy :))
	stream : have fun with the sliders

share/examples/ :
	hxFastLIC
	hxSurfaceLic

Nice stuff indeed.