arora@skorpio.Berkeley.EDU (Neelam Arora) (01/29/91)
The Art and History department in our university is interested in keeping an online database of 120,000 slides. The minimum acceptable requirement is a display of the quality of 35 mm slide. It is also desired to have a facility to overlay text with the slide image. The text for each individual using the slide should be saved separately. They want to present the slides on a 28 cm screen. Any suggestions/pointers for both hardware and software are welcomed. We are thinking in terms of a mac based solution. Thanks in advance Neelam Arora arora@skorpio.USask.ca
dolf@fwi.uva.nl (Dolf Starreveld) (02/01/91)
arora@skorpio.Berkeley.EDU (Neelam Arora) writes: > The Art and History department in our university is interested in keeping > an online database of 120,000 slides. The minimum acceptable requirement > is a display of the quality of 35 mm slide. It is also desired to have a > facility to overlay text with the slide image. The text for each individual > using the slide should be saved separately. They want to present the slides > on a 28 cm screen. Any suggestions/pointers for both hardware and software > are welcomed. We are thinking in terms of a mac based solution. You might want to check out a product called PicturePress by Storm Technology, a Palo Alto based company. PicturePress compresses and decompressed 24-bit color image (35 mm quality) on any Macintosh II model or SE/30. This is done in software or, if the PicturePress accelerator is installed (only on modular Macintoshes), in hardware. Hardware speeds the process up by a factor of 5-30. A typical 1Mb file decompresses in about 1.35 secs. Pricing is $199 for software, $999 for accelerator + software. Software stays identical, hardware is transparenlty used. Also includes plugin modules for Adobe PhotoShop for direct compression/decompression. A compression scheme is really necessary when storing so may large images. Storm is working with several third parties to create custom image databases. You might want to contact Storm for further information: Storm Technology 220 California Ave Suite 101, Palo Alto, CA 94306 (415) 322 0506 FAX: (415) 322 2439 -- Dolf Starreveld Phone: +31 20 592 5056/5022 (FAX: 5155), TELEX: 10262 HEF NL EMAIL: dolf@fwi.uva.nl (dolf%fwi.uva.nl@hp4nl.nluug.nl) SNAIL: Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands