Imaris 9 - Billion Triangle Surface Model

Additional Features

The new Surface rendering technology in Imaris 9 adopts Imaris' proven Volume rendering technology based on a multi-resolution octree. Now it's possible to visualize Surfaces of hundreds of Gigabytes in size. With this technology Imaris 9 can interactively render massive Surfaces consisting of billions of triangles.

The technology that enables Imaris 9 fast rendering of large surfaces is based on the following features:

• Multi-resolution surfaces in 3D block-wise layout
• Renderer loads optimal surface resolution levels to match screen resolution
• Data Caching in VRAM and RAM
• Multi-threading of rendering, decompression and loading

Surface Slicer

In addition to the well known 3D Surface rendering, within Imaris 9 Surfaces can be also rendered on a slicer (xy, xz, yz or oblique).

Blend and Normal Shading Mode

Blend and Normal Shading mode renderings now have separate display adjustment windows. The opacity transfer function is adjusted in a histogram on the Volume settings tab. These values are stored in the IMS file separately from the display min/max so that the renderings are restored from their saved state.

Histogram Zoom

Zoom in and out of histograms in Imaris – simply use your mouse wheel. Pan the view by right-clicking on the zoom bar at the top of the histogram. Double Right-clicking on the zoom bar resets the view. Zoom into histograms at object Threshold and Classify steps, on object Filter tabs, and in the Coloc View.

Lineage Tree Export

Imaris 9 enables export of high resolution snapshots of the track editor window (tracks or lineage trees) including color coding and labels either as SVG vector graphics or as a high resolution .tiff.

File Readers

Imaris 9 includes 2 new native file readers:

• Aperio SVS
• Hamamatsu NDPI

In addition, Imaris 9 searches the file reader plugin directory for DLLs that have the FileReader API. When such a DLL is found it will be added as a file reader to Imaris. If the file format contains multiple resolution levels Imaris will render those files in native mode without reading the entire file before rendering.