From bronze!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!darwin.sura.net!nih-csl!wayne@helix.nih.gov Wed Apr 29 11:14:39 EST 1992 Article: 2400 of bionet.software Newsgroups: bionet.software Path: bronze!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!darwin.sura.net!nih-csl!wayne@helix.nih.gov From: wayne@helix.nih.gov (Wayne Rasband) Subject: NIH Image V1.44 Message-ID: <1992Apr29.154049.17984@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: NIH Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 15:40:49 GMT Announcing NIH Image V1.44 ---------------------------------------- NIH Image V1.44, including documentation and source code, is now available by anonymous ftp from zippy.nimh.nih.gov[128.231.98.32], in the directory /pub/image. NIH Image is an image processing and analysis application for the Macintosh that is in the public domain. It has painting and image manipulation tools, a macro language, tools for measuring areas, distances and angles, and for counting things. It supports TIFF, PICT and PICS file formats. Using a frame grabber card, it can record sequences of images to be played back as a movie. It can invoke user-defined convolution matrix filters. It can import raw data in tab-delimited ASCII, or as 1 or 2-byte quantities. It also does histograms and even 3-D plots. It is limited to 8-bits/pixel, though the 8 bits map into a color lookup table. It runs on any Mac that has a 256-color screen and a FPU (or get the NonFPU version from zippy.nimh.nih.gov) --wayne rasband(wayne@helix.nih.gov) NIH Image --------- NIH Image is a public domain program for the Macintosh for doing digital image processing and analysis. It can acquire, display, edit, enhance, analyze, print, and animate grayscale and color images. It reads and writes TIFF, PICT, PICS and MacPaint files It features multiple windows, MacPaint-like editing and 8 levels of magnification. It supports Data Translation and Scion frame grabber cards. Image requires at least 4MB of RAM and 8-bit video. The following files in the directory /pub/image contain NIH Image, documentation, source code, and example images. image1xx.hqx NIH Image 1.xx application image1xx_manual.hqx Documentation in Word 4.0 format image1xx_source.hqx Think Pascal 4.0 source image1xxNonFPU.hqx Version that does not require a floating-point chip images Directory with images in TIFF and PICT format image_spinoffs Extended or specialized versions of Image(directory) misc Directory containing miscellaneous related programs File Formats ------------ Files with the .hqx extension have been compressed and encoded into BinHex format using the Mac utility Stuffit 1.5.1. The BinHex protocol transforms binary Mac files to plain ASCII so they can reside on other computer systems and be transferred by email. BinHex files must be transferred to a Mac and decoded and uncompressed using Stuffit or some other Mac file compression utility. A copy of Stuffit 1.5.1 is in the directory /pub/util in MacBinary format. When transfering .hqx or .txt files with a utility like FTP or Kermit be sure to use 'ascii' mode, and when transfering .bin files use MacBinary mode. ColorImage(/pub/image/image_spinoffs) ------------------------------------- This is a beta version of ColorImage, which is NIH Image extended to acquire and segment color images from RGB sources. Giffer(/pub/image/misc) ----------------------- Giffer is a shareware program useful for converting from GIF to Pict format, and vis-versa. ImageFFT(/pub/image/image_spinoffs) ----------------------------------- ImageFFT is an extension to NIH Image to support frequency domain (power spectrum) display and editing. It can do a 512x512 FFT in 18 seconds on a Mac IIfx. ImageFractal(/pub/image/image_spinoffs) --------------------------------------- ImageFractal is a version of Image modified to compute the Fractal Index of objects by the Richardson Plot or the Tile-amalgamation methods. Image/MG(/pub/image/image_spinoffs) ----------------------------------- Image/MG is an extension of Image supporting quantitative evaluation of cerebral blood flow, glucose metabolism, and protein synthesis. NCSA PalEdit(/pub/image/misc) ----------------------------- NCSA PalEdit is a public domain program from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for creating and customizing color palettes. With PalEdit, you can modify the whole palette or individual entries in the palette, to create a set of colors tailored to your needs. PalEdit can save palettes in three formats that are compatible with NIH Image: PixelPaint, Canvas, and Klutz. PseudoFPU(/pub/util) -------------------- A utility that allows programs, such as NIH Image, which normally require a 68881/68882 Floating Point Unit, to work without one. Switch-A-Roo(/pub/util) ----------------------- Switch-A-Roo is a free Fkey that will allows you to rapidly switch between any two monitor depths settings(e.g. 8-bit color and 24-bit color) by pressing a few keys. LaboratoryToolbox(/pub/image/misc) ----------------- The Laboratory Toolbox is a Hypercard Stack which originated as a tool for teaching laboratory computing. It implements an object oriented "Laboratory Notebook" structure for the acquisition and management of sensor based data within a laboratory environment. Projectionist(/pub/image/misc) ------------------------------ Projectionist is a utility that allows you to animate stacks created by Image and saved in PICS format. Because all the frames in the stack do not need to be loaded into RAM, Projectionist requires less memory than image. This preliminary version uses the standard system palette, so stacks created with Image may lose some of their colors when animated with Projectionist. Fetch(/pub/util) ---------------- Fetch is a slick utility that allows networked Macs to transfer files over the Internet using the File Transfer Protocol(FTP). It does BinHex decoding and file decompression as the files are transferred.