Hi folks,
today, after many samples and some dcraw binaries over the last months, a long awaited algorithm was finally released as open source, AMaZE (Aliasing Minimization and Zipper Elimination) by Emil Martinec. It is an algorithm for demosaicing a Bayer pattern, so you need RAW images to use it. The very good news with this release, it is part of the RAWTherapee development version, so you can go right ahead and give it a try.
After the first tests, I have to say it looks quite promising. The speed is on par with DCB (around 3s for a 14MP image on a Q6600 4x2.4GHz) and the results on low ISO images are even a little better. Just look close at hard edges or small patterns, AMaZE renders them a little smoother. However, on high ISO images AMaZE is a little weaker than DCB.
Altogether, for most images the differences between the two are not really relevant; you see the slight differences only at 100% or above. If you even shrink your images (e.g. for the web), you won't see any difference.
So go ahead, try it, and leave feedback to the author. 
greets mike
