This report presents a comparative analysis of different multimodal rendering methods proposed in [FPT02]. It shows how relevant features of a property as well as relationships between data can be outlined by choosing an appropriate fusion modality. In addition, it analyses the visual clues that can be provided by using different shading models and by enabling rendering parameters such as depth cueing and light source attenuation. The simulations are performed on the software Hipo whose design is described in [PTF02].