Software survey section

Comput.

Pergamon

& Graphics, Vol. 18, No.5, pp. I-IV, 1994 Copyright (c) 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain 0097-8493/94 $6.00 + .00

Software Survey Section

Editor's Note: The following Software Description has been submitted by a reader in response to our call for an open exchange of information on software programs. It is offered without review or comment to provide a rapidly published, easily accessible avenue of communication. Other readers with relevant software packages are invited to complete and submit a Software Description Form (found at the end of this section).

ProtoPIPE

Software Packaqe CAG-028-$94 Contributor: Peter Cholakis, Billerica, MA 01821

General

Imaging Corporation,

6 Fortune Drive,

Brief Description: ProtoPIPE is a powerful suite of drag and drop signal/image processing application development tools, providing rapid prototyping of complex imaging applications. Using stand-alone systems, networked systems, or a client/server architecture and an object-oriented interface, users can graphically design, develop, test, simulate, and execute data imaging applications in a fraction of the time vs. conventional programming techniques. Images can be edited, analyzed, and displayed in a wide range of data formats including; grayscale, color, numerical (Hexadecimal, decimal), analytical (Histogram, pixel info), and plots (2D, 3D). ProtoPIPE automatically recognizes and accepts all popular file formats. Editing features include region of interest (ROI), cut, copy, paste, scaling, geometric transformation, invert, ... A design library of 200+ optimized signal/image processing algorithms and utilities is available and promotes ease of use for programmers and non-programmers alike. Knowledge of X-Windows programming is not required. Users will now be able to save man-years of programming time by taking advantage of the drag and drop graphical programming environment, combined with the design library of 200+ reusable image processing algorithms. Users' investment in existing libraries is protected by the ability to use simple call routines enabling seamless integration into the ProtoPIPE environment. ProtoPIPE allows users to take full advantage of today's distributed computing environments. Applications can be executed on a single processor or distributed over a heterogeneous multiprocessing environment. Cost of program

is $7,500;

a demonstration

Potential Users: Medical researchers, academicians. Fields of Interest: Industrial QA/QC, medical imaging, oil and gas.

disk is available industry,

for $50.

engineers,

atmospheric

sciences,

scientists, astronomy,

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This graphical application developer and execution p r o g r a m in the area of signal/image processing has been developed for SUN Platforms in C to run under SUN OS 4.x, Solaris 2.x. It is a v a i l a b l e on 3-i/2", high density, dual-sided floppy diskette. Required memory is 8MB. D i s t r i b u t e d by General Imaging Corporation. User training is not required. It is s e l f - d o c u m e n t i n g w i t h e x t e n s i v e external documentation. Source code is available. The package is fully operational. It has been in use at I0+ sites for a p p r o x i m a t e l y 3 months. The contributor is available for user inquiries.

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JOURNAL NAME

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COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS

E L S E V I E R

SCIENCE

SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION FORM

Title of Software Program:

Contributor: Institution: Address:

Telephone:

Type of program:

[ ] Application

[ ] Utility

[ ) Other

Category:

(ie., Psychological

Assessment,

statistics,

thermodynamics,

etc.)

Potential users: Field/s of interest: Developed for (name of computer/s): in (language/s): to run under

(operating system):

available on:

[ ] Floppy diskette

Size

Specify:

Density

[ ] Single-sided

[ ] Magnetic Tape Size

[ ] Dual-sided

Specify:

Density

Character set

Hardware required: Memory required: Documentation:

User training required: [ ] None

[ ] Minimal

[ ] Yes

[ ] No

[ ] Self-documenting

[ ] Extensive external d o c u m e n t a t i o n Source code available:

[ ] Yes

[ ] No

Stage of development:

[ ] Design complete

[ ] Coding complete

[ ] Fully operational

[ ] Collaboration welcomed

[ ] Yes

How many sites?

Is program in use?

How l o n g ?

[ ]No IS the contributor available for user inquiries?:

[ ] Yes

[ ] No

Distributed by: Cost of program: Demonstrationdisk

available?

[ ] Yes

Cost:

[ ) No

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RETURN COMPLETED

(maximum of 200 words):

FORM TO:

J.L. ENCARNACAO Graphisch-Interaktive Systeme Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7 D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany

Reference number (assigned by Editor)

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