From ruprecht@euler.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Mon Sep 6 10:03:20 1993 X-VM-VHeader: ("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:") nil X-VM-Bookmark: 3 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["2730" "" "6" "September" "1993" "13:00:05" "GMT" "Nick Ruprecht" "ruprecht@euler.informatik.uni-dortmund.de" nil "64" "Re: Image Processing Software (yawn)" "^From:" nil nil "9" "1993090613:00:05" nil]) Status: RO Newsgroups: sci.image.processing Organization: University of Dortmund, Informatik LS 7 Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: euler.informatik.uni-dortmund.de From: ruprecht@euler.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Nick Ruprecht) Subject: Re: Image Processing Software (yawn) Date: 6 Sep 1993 13:00:05 GMT [Mail bounced, so I post] In article <9309020942.AA24578@sparc1.demon.co.uk>, martyn@sparc1.demon.co.uk (Martyn Fogg) writes: >This is probably an FAQ but I need some free (or cheap) image processing >software [...] Yes it is. B^) The following is an excerpt from the Computer Graphics Resource Listing, maintained by Nick Fotis and posted frequently to comp.graphics, comp.answers, and news.answers: : Image Manipulation Libraries: : ----------------------------- : : Utah Raster Toolkit - nice image manipulation tools. : PBMPLUS - a great package for image conversion and manipulation. : LIBTIFF - library for reading/writing TIFF images. : ImageMagick - X11 package for display and interactive manipulation : of images. Uses its own format (MIFF), and includes some converters. : xv - X-based image display, manipulation, and format converter. : xloadimage, xli - displays various formats on an X11 screen. : Khoros - a huge, excellent system for image processing, with a visual : programming interface and much much more. Uses X windows. : FBM - another set of image manipulation tools, somewhat old now. : Img - image manipulation, displays on X11 screen, a bit old now. : xflick - Plays .FLI animation under X11 : XAnim - plays any resolution FLI along with GIF's(including GIF89a animation : extensions), DL's and Amiga IFF animations(3,5,J,l) and IFF : pictures(including HAM,EHB and color cycling) : SDSC - SDSC Image Tools package (San Diego Supercomputing Center) : for image manipulation and conversion : CLRpaint - A 24-bit paint program for SGI 24bit workstations and 8bit Indigos : BIT - Another 24-bit paint program for SGI machines. : [ Described under Subject 16 : Image annotation software ] Khoros is a big (~160MB), comprehensive package with a very nice visual programming environment. The Khoros FAQ, posted regularly to comp.soft-sys.khoros has this to say about availability: : 5. Anonymous FTP sites : $KHOROS_FTP = : USA pprg.eece.unm.edu 129.24.24.10 /pub/khoros : USA ftp.uu.net 192.48.96.9 /pub/window-sys/khoros : CANADA popeye.genie.uottawa.ca 137.122.20.3 /pub/khoros : GERMANY ftp.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE 134.95.80.5 /graph/khoros : GERMANY ftp.lrz-muenchen.de 129.187.10.35 /local/khoros : ITALY ipifidpt.difi.unipi.it 131.114.8.130 /pub/khoros : JAPAN ftp.waseda.ac.jp 133.9.1.32 /pub/khoros : : Pull back the file $KHOROS_FTP/release/install.ftp and read it first. : Please use the site closest to you. >Thanks. Never mind. Hope this helps - Nick -- Nick Ruprecht ruprecht@ls7.informatik.uni-dortmund.de The Computer Graphics Group phone: +49-231-755 6134 Department of Computer Science fax: +49-231-755 6321 University of Dortmund D-44221 Dortmund, Germany From rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU Thu Sep 30 12:59:24 1993 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["5092" "Thu" "30" "September" "1993" "06:21:44" "GMT" "Richard Gooch" "rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU " nil "108" "[ANNOUNCE] Version 1.0 of Karma is now available" "^From:" nil nil "9"]) Newsgroups: sci.image.processing Followup-To: poster Keywords: Karma libray Image Processing Nntp-Posting-Host: wyvern Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch) Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Version 1.0 of Karma is now available Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 06:21:44 GMT Version 1.0 (the first official public release) of the Karma library is now available for ftp. Below are README extracts: Karma is available on anonymous ftp from: ftp.atnf.csiro.au under the pub/karma directory. The following binary distributions have also been made: Sun Sparc, SunOS 4.1.1 i386, Linux 0.99pl11, libc 4.4.1 Convex C2, ConvexOS 10.1.2 =============================================================================== Karma A Structured Package for Signal and Image Processing Karma is a package for signal and image processing applications. It contains KarmaLib (the structured libraries and API) and a large number of modules (applications) to perform many standard tasks. Please mail any bug reports to: karma-bugs@atnf.csiro.au No warranty, express or implied should be inferred by this mailing address. If you want to be added to the mailing list (to find out what's changed with Karma), please mail the request to: karma-request@atnf.csiro.au This mailing list is VERY important: as bugs are fixed and enhancements made to Karma, this is your only way of finding out about these changes. If you have any suggestions for Karma, please mail them to: karma-suggestions@atnf.csiro.au Karma is available on anonymous ftp from: ftp.atnf.csiro.au under the pub/karma directory. Both the source code and binary distributions are kept here. The source code is available free of charge, although donations are gratefully accepted (means I can spend more time developing Karma). Donations can be sent to: Richard Gooch, c/o ATNF, P. O. Box 76, Epping, N.S.W., 2121, Australia. You are urged to get the binary distribution if possible, as this will save you the effort of building from source. Karma modules use the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. KarmaLib uses the GNU Library General Public License, version 2 or later. =============================================================================== KarmaLib A Structured Library for Signal and Image Processing Karma is a package for signal and image processing applications. It contains KarmaLib (the structured library and API) and a large number of modules (applications) to perform many standard tasks. KarmaLib provides routines to simplify the interface to the operating system. This includes process management and a powerful connection package. It also provides a highly extensible, recursive, heirarchical data structure with extensive library support. This data structure may be accessed in a very portable, generic fashion by applications and may also be accessed directly when speed is critical. By supplying powerful library routines, data structures may be accessed in an abstract way, removing the need for the applications programmer to write code to deal with complex data structures while also allowing users to pass increasingly complex data structures to modules without the need for recompiliation. The applications programmer is left to concentrate on processing simple sub-structures (typically 1 or 2 dimensional arrays) without incurring any processing overhead. Tiling of multi dimensional arrays is supported transparently, and, using special indexing techniques (also transparent to the application), incur no performance overhead. The library also supplies routines to allow the programmer to transfer data structures as objects to and from named objects (disc files and network connections) without requiring the programmer to pay any attention to data formats, byte swapping machines, word sizes, etc. All data transfers are highly optimised to take advantage of the features of any particular platform and operating system. In addition, data structures may be automatically memory mapped from disc into the process address space, yielding enormous peformance increases when reading large data structures from disc, and also saving swap space. KarmaLib is structured into many "packages", which are collections of routines. All the routines in each package have a designated prefix. For example, the data structure manipulation routines all have the prefix: ds_ The include file needed for each package is based on the common prefix. For example: karma_ds.h The packages are also layered. Level 1 packages are the lowest level, and depend directly on the operating system. Higher level packages are dependent on one or more packages at lower levels. A package at one level is not dependent on any other package at the same or higher level. The number of letters in a package's prefix indicates the level of the package. So, for example, the data structure manipulation routines are a level 2 package. In many cases, certain functionality is provided in packages at various levels. With few exceptions, the highest level packages are recommended for use, as these provide the greatest flexibility, ease of use and are also more highly optimised. -- Regards, Richard Gooch, rgooch@atnf.csiro.au From rivero@oboe.etsiig.uniovi.es Tue Sep 14 22:08:14 1993 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1070" "" "14" "September" "1993" "18:18:27" "+0100" "Raul Rivero Uria" "rivero@oboe.etsiig.uniovi.es" nil "25" "Re: TIFF format" "^From:" nil nil "9" "1993091417:18:27" nil]) Status: RO Newsgroups: sci.image.processing Nntp-Posting-Host: trono X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] From: rivero@oboe.etsiig.uniovi.es (Raul Rivero Uria) Subject: Re: TIFF format Date: 14 Sep 93 18:18:27 +0100 Bi Mi - ang (bimi@iss.nus.sg) wrote: : Hello, everyone, : I am looking for the PC software which can convert image data : between TIFF and RAW format. Any kind of suggestion about this : would be appreciated. Yeah, we have a converter from/to tiff, tga, gif, alias, pcx, wavefront, Utah RLE, ... and raw. You can get it from telva.ccu.uniovi.es (156.35.31.31): /uniovi/mathdept/src/PC/lugbin.zip. Enjoy. ================================================================= = Raul Rivero = = LabCAD = nuevos@hp400.ccu.uniovi.es = = Mathematics Dept. = adm@hp400.ccu.uniovi.es = = University of Oviedo = rivero@oboe.etsiig.uniovi.es = = ------------------------------------------------------------- = = " If architects built buildings the way programmers write = = programs the first woodpecker that came along would destroy = = civilization " - Murphy's Laws of Computers. = =================================================================