Subject: Re: Image Processing Software (yawn)

From: [email-masked] (Nick Ruprecht)
Date: 6 Sep 1993 13:00:05 GMT

[Mail bounced, so I post]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (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

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