High quality, interactive surface imaging

A 3D representation often gives a designer or an engineer a better idea of a feature or the cause of a problem than a series of numbers. Using OpenGL technology, Mountains® provides complete surface visibility at any angle in real time, by just moving the mouse.

Multiple interactive surface views

Numerous different views of a surface are available including pseudo-color images, photo simulations, contour diagrams and 3D views. Color palettes can be changed instantly, and adjusted with cursors to specific heights.

Simulated flight and surface evolution movies

You can define a flight path over a surface and generate an animated movie of the flight. You can also play movies of evolving 3D surfaces and even simulate a flight over them as they change. All movies can be integrated into presentations.

High quality images

Mountains® contains a broad set of tools for removing noise and correcting anomalies in order to reveal surface features. These tools include: automatic spatial and morphological filters, removal of anomalous peaks and valleys by thresholding, automatic filling of non-measured points, correction of anomalous scan lines, and retouching isolated anomalies (for example specks of dust). In addition, surface features can be highlighted by adjusting the color-coded z-axis interactively and materials can be applied to a surface to generate synthetic images.

Normalized images

Mountains® also contains operators for normalizing images prior to analysis. They include leveling, correction of symmetries, alignment with predominant surface lay, selection of appropriate axis units, and selection of a rectangular, circular or polygonal zone for study.

Image overlays

Any image (photo, SPM phase layer, CLSM intensity layer) can be overlaid on a 3D topographical view of a surface.

3D view of a printed circuit board.

Several rendering options are available
(lines, mesh, continuous, textured, etc.).

Nanometric calibration standard.