What's New in Mountains® Version 6.1?
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 Unprecedented surface analysis power Native 64 bit code (with Windows 7 64 and Windows Vista 64) and multicore parallelization accelerate calculation and provide excellent performance with large measurement data sets and advanced applications involving heavy processing. MountainsMap® 6 runs on Widows 7 (64 bit and 32 bit), Windows Vista (64 bit and 32 bit) and Windows XP (32 bit only). |
MountainsMap 6.2 - October 2011 MountainsMap 6.1 - March 2011 MountainsMap 6.0 - September 2010 |
Mountains 6.1 software
Even faster, greater interoperability, enhanced sub-surface analysis, wavelets analysis, integration of additional standards, and more
Even faster
- The significant gains in Mountains 6.0 have been further extended in Mountains 6.1.
Universal ASCII data export from all analytical studies
- Output numerical results from any analytical study in Mountains 6.1 into an Excel compatible text file to facilitate post-processing of results and publishing them in accordance with varying editorial guidelines.
MATLAB™ compatibility
- Execute MATLAB™ scripts by loading an m file or writing your own script in Mountains in order to apply your own operators on measurement data sets, for example custom filters. Note: MATLAB™ and MountainsMap must be installed on the same computer.
More powerful line by line correction with structure exclusion
| Excluded structures (gray) | Corrected surface |
- It is possible to exclude structures above the surface (bumps) and/or structures below the surface (holes) so that they are ignored during leveling.
Automatic zone merging facilitates sub-surface analysis
| Original surface | Leveled surface | Partitioned surface |
| Mountains 6.0: separated contiguous zones |
Mountains 6.1: Merged contiguous zones |
- Multiple contiguous zones selected during partition leveling can be merged into a continuous sub-surface for independent analysis.
Enhanced management of surface-image stacks
- A stack of multi-channel images can be reassembled after one of its constituent images has been processed (for example with a denoising filter) so that the images in the stack can still be manipulated simultaneously.
User interface in Brazilian Portuguese
- In Mountains 6.1 the user interface is available in Brazilian Portuguese bringing the number of languages supported to ten. Note that while the user interface is available in ten languages, the Help files are displayed in English when Italian, Chinese, Polish, Korean and Portuguese are selected.
New Wavelets module: visualize and analyze scale levels and spatial locations where surface phenomena occur
Continuous wavelet decomposition (2D profiles)
- Visualize the scales where phenomena occur on 2D (x, z) profiles using one or more wavelet families (in many case with a selectable index or number of coefficients): Coiflet (1-5), Daubechies (1-10), Discrete Meyer, Gauss (1-8), Mexican Hat, Morlet and Symlet (1-8).
- Specify the decomposition range (the upper and lower limits of the scale shown on the Y axis).
Discrete wavelet filter (2D profiles and 3D surfaces)
- Use wavelets of different families – defined by a wavelet function and a scaling function – to decompose a 2D (x, z) profile or 3D (x, y, z) surface into a set of profiles or surfaces at different levels of scale using Coiflet, Daubechies, Discrete Meyer, Spline and Symlet wavelet families.
- Visualize the profiles and surfaces at different levels of scale.
- Select the scale levels contained in the high-pass (roughness) profile and hence in the low-pass (waviness) profile interactively.
- Use the Wavelet Spline advanced filtering technique defined in ISO 16610.
New Lead Analysis (Twist) module: generate a lead twist analysis report automatically
- Implements 2nd generation lead analysis in the automotive industry in accordance with Mercedes-Benz Engineering Standard (Measurement and Evaluation Method for the Assessment of Lead-Reduced Dynamic Sealing Surfaces, 2009), widely adopted in the automotive industry.
- Generate a lead twist analysis report automatically by applying a Mountains minidoc to the measurement data set.
- Lead parameters are relevant to the leak-tightness of crank shaft seals and therefore to oil consumption.
Image Co-localization module
| Fluorescence images | Topography | Co-localization |
Introduced in Mountains 6.0 this module has been significantly enhanced in Mountains 6.1.
- The main application of the module is to automatically co-localize a simultaneous AFM topography image with one or more fluorescence images, for example in order to obtain useful information on cell morphology.
- Color fluorescence images by selecting one of ten laser wavelengths.
- Fine tune the size and rotation of the overlaid topography image if required, together with its transparency.
Force Spectroscopy module (SPM) enhancements
- Normalize force curve baselines using the force curve normalization module.
- Calibrate cantilever sensitivity and specify the spring constant.
Advanced Contour Analysis module radius value parameters enhancement
- The type of radius (Rls for least square radius, Rabs for absolute radius) is now mentioned in the parameter table for the residue profile.