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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II for Image Processing
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Date: 15 Aug 88 02:44:03 GMT
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Scanners: check out the August issue of Publish! magazine. It is devoted
to high quality image scanners for the Mac and the IBM pc. If you decide
you want to go to ultra-high resolution color, consider Barneyscan, here
in Berkeley.

Image processing: Take a look at ImageStudio and others. Once again, the
adds in Publish! will help.

Database: Macintosh pictures are stored in standard PICT resources (which
contain not only bitmaps, but also structured graphics, and can contain
postscript.) All the top databases (4th Dimension, DBase, even hypercard
and the Acta outline editor desk accessory) 
support storing PICT resources in records. All the page layout programs,
and all the word processors let you paste them into pictures. 

Genlock: it is available. Consult the individual display board
manufacturers. (A mac II will accept a wide range of display adapters, and
because the o.s. provides such a high level interace to the display,
programs can use the full power and size of displays invented after the
program was written.)

Color quickdraw: is heavily tuned. I doubt you'll be able to do much
better. In addition, if you  write directly to the screen memory, your
programs will break with some hardware that may exist in the future that
runs the display in a not-normally accessible part of the memory map.

Software development: I think you'll find Macintosh Programmer's Workshop,
(available from APDA), Lightspeed C 3.0, and 4th Dimension, each in its
own way, are as advanced as anything you'll find on any system. (I prefer
LightSpeed C 3.0 to anything I've seen on any unix machine.)

Get a copy of Inside mac Vol 5. and read about the color manager, the
palette manager, and Color Quickdraw.

With each system release (and they come about every 6 months) Apple adds
more goodies to the programmer's toolbox on this machine. It is great to 
be working on a system that is moving into the future so fast.

--- David Phillip Oster            --When you asked me to live in sin with you
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --I didn't know you meant sloth.
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