[comp.sys.acorn] New apps

kortink@.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) (04/30/91)

There is a new companion application to Translator and Creator.

GreyEdit processes greyscale images. It contains several extremely
fast image processing filters, histogram equalization and range
expansion. There's also noise pixel editing and image cutting with
optional zoom for precision.

It accepts either greyscale Clear files (e.g. produced by Translator
with 'Black and white' option on), or input from my home-brew video
digitiser (for the happy few who were so smart to buy one (or build
one, as it's in the Dutch Elektor this month !) :-).

GreyEdit is the third member of my 'image processing package' (sic),
so registration for Translator and Creator also registers you for
GreyEdit. As very few people (I can count them on one hand) decided
to do so (nobody really seems to be using Translator, or Creator, and
probably nobody will ever touch GreyEdit, eh guys ?), this may well be
the last. (Come on, people!).

The latest versions of Translator, Creator and GreyEdit were posted to
the comp.binaries.acorn moderator and to the Newcastle filesever.

John Kortink

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kortink@.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) (04/30/91)

Ever had a program that draws something wildly interesting ? Ever
wished that you could convert it to a draw-file ?

A friend of mine, Pieter Gosselink (he made the icons for Translator
and Creator you like so much), finished the first version of an
application that does just that. Not just the easy bits, the works !

!VDUobject accepts a file containing a sequence of VDU commands, and
converts it to a draw file. When loaded into Draw, the original objects
drawn by the VDU sequence are recreated, and can thereafter be manipulated
at will. Needless to say, printing the image will result in a hard-copy
with a much larger resolution. Circles will look like circles, not like
some circle-like structure of 'bricks'.

A cut-down version of !VDUobject was posted to the comp.binaries.acorn
moderator and to the Newcastle filesever. The full version is available
for a song (don't take this too literally), so he can make a tiny bit of
money out of it, which is fully and truly deserved.

John Kortink

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Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
NETMAIL : kortink@cs.utwente.nl
DISCLAIMER : you know ....             "It's a one time thing
                                        It just happens
           Suzanne Vega ('Cracking')    a lot"
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