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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: summary re: amiga, ccd, astronomy image-processing
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Date: 3 Sep 90 20:06:13 GMT
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Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
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In article <992@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes:
>G'day,
>
>JW> In article <jwright.652282081@catfish>, jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu
>JW> (Jim Wright) writes: 
>JP> Well, there are _no_ ccd digitizing/ image-manipulation programs
>JP> for the Amiga readily available. Mount Palomar uses an A2000 and
> +
>JP> ... I had hoped that the programmers interested in image-processing
>JP> on the Amiga would have written a viable program by now.
>
>Sorry, but I'm genuinely confused. Wasn't this thread basically trying to
>determine if Amigas are being/could be used for jobs currently performed
>by Macintoshes/IBM clones in this area?
>
>I can't (yet, perhaps if at all) see that those PCs are ``that much'' better
>equipped for the apparently CPU intensive tasks you outline. 
>
The problem is not one of time, it is one of capability. Technical
Image processing hardware and software do exist for the Mac & the
PC. It doesn't exist for the Amiga. I know. I need it very badly.

One thing I am looking into is using the X11-based image processing
package from Laurence Livermore which is freely-distributable from what
I understand (not sure though). Anyway, I am trying to get enough
money to run it on a Sun via X11 until I get a chance to try and port
it to someone's 24bit 30FPS Framegrabber/framebuffer running native on
the Amiga.

This is the only option I have seen for technical image processing
using the Amiga. Any comments?


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