Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II for Image Processing Message-ID: <25639@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 88 02:44:03 GMT References: <5177@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 41 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. Uucp: {uwvax,decvax,ihnp4}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu