| Amira | Imaris | Vaa3D | Volocity | FluoRender |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Open Source (Free) | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Channel Number (Tested) | RGBA | 25 | RGBA | 16a | 96b |
Time to Load Datac | 20Â min | 5Â min (For 25 channels) | 2Â min (w/ Renaming)/10Â min | 1Â min | 1Â min |
Channel Adjustment | Not interactive | Interactive | Not Interactive | Not always interactive | Interactive |
Channel Intermixing | Depth | Depth | Depth | Depth | Multiple |
Floating-point/Tone Mapping | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Volume Selection/Extraction | No | No | No | No | Yes |