pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) (09/30/89)
This is to announce the release of RGBView version 1.0. RGBView is an application which reads 24 bit RGB image files and converts them to 8 bit images with color palette. It will run on any Macintosh computer with color QuickDraw. On a computer with a color monitor, it will display the images on the screen and provides some simple animation capability for multiple images. It can read several different RGB image formats and write a couple of different 8 bit image and palette formats. Programmers can write additional file readers and writers to work with RGBView. You can get RGBView via anonymous ftp at vsserv.scri.fsu.edu in the pub/mac/apps directory. It is in two parts which should be concatenated before running through BinHex or Stuffit 1.5.1. The distribution contains RGBView, a 25-page guide, a sample picture in MTV image format, and a working sample of a file reader. The guide contains information on how to use the program, a discussion of the algorithms used, and a description of how to write your own file readers and writers. RGBView is in the public domain. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.