he 3D Analysis Software for Scientific and Industrial data Avizo® software is a powerful, multifaceted tool for visualizing, manipulating, and understanding scientific and industrial data. Wherever three-dimensional data sets need to be processed, in materials science, geosciences, environmental or engineering applications, Avizo offers abundant state-of-the-art features within an intuitive workflow and easy-to-use graphical user interface. Avizo is packaged in different Editions, with optional eXtension modules. Each Avizo Edition delivers tailored user interface and specific feature-set for each application area : 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 (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, 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. Volume visualization Volume rendering: Intuitive visualization of 3D image data, Interactive speed (2D/3D texture rendering, pixel shaders), Embedded geometry,Handles very large volumes up to hundreds of gigabytes. Slicing: Orthogonal, oblique, curved, cylindrical. Isosurface extraction: Fast extraction of surface identifying a given threshold. Mesh & surface visualization Surface and volume meshes Structured/unstructured grids Simplification & smoothing Advanced surface simplifier and advanced surface editor (geometry data readers) 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). 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)