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- Lynx version 1.01ß
-
- Copyright 1993, 1995 Stéphane Poirier
- Released june 1995
-
-
- This is the first public beta-release of Lynx.
-
- What is Lynx ?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- It's an image processing package. Yet another ? Not exactly. Lynx is
- significantly different than others images processing packages availables
- for the Amiga.
-
- For example, It can do the Fourier transformation and works in the frequency
- domain of the images.
-
- It's the first one (I think !) which be able to work on 16 bits per pixel
- (per channel) images, that gives 65536 gray levels !
-
- The main purpose of Lynx is scientific and it is able to process images in
- many domains: Astronomy, physics, archéologie...
-
- Lynx can also execute some subjectives processes such as image composition,
- solarize effect, oil painting...
-
- There are two versions: 8bits and 16bits. The first one is rather designed
- for subjective processing, while the second is rather for "serious" image
- processing !
-
- Why ?
- ~~~~~
- In the beginning I would process some astronomical images that I had
- released with a CCD camera, but there wasn't any software on the Amiga
- able to perform some processes such as FFT transform, Gaussian filters,
- profile extraction and many others. So I'd decided to make my own program.
-
- Capabilities
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- -Lynx can load and process as many images as possible (multiples buffers)
- -Up to 256 slices (channels) per image.
- -Add, delete, move slices between image buffers (stacks).
-
- Input/Output
- --------------
- o Read the following images formats:
- FITS (Flexible Image Transport System).
- IFF 1-8 bitplans, IFF24.
- Datatypes.
- Lynx (own format).
-
- o Write the following images formats:
- FITS (Flexible Image Transport System).
- IFF 2-8 bitplans, IFF24, HAM 6 ou 8.
- Lynx (own format).
-
- Image Processing
- ----------------
- o Spatial domain:
- Convolutions Matrix 3x3 & 5x5
- Median filter (with control of efficiency and matrix design)
- Minimum, maximum filters
- Arithmetics operations
- Transcode
- Histogram Equalisation
- Geometricals operations (Scale, Translate, Rotate, Dimensions)
- Pixels corrections
-
- o Spectral domain:
- Fast Fourier Transform
- Convolution
- Deconvolution (Wiener filter)
- Correlation
- Filtering (Low-Pass, Band-Pass, High-pass, Gauss, Butterworth,
- Wavelet...)
-
- Image analysis
- --------------
- Histogram
- Statistics
- Pixel values
- Profiles extractions
- Photometric mesurements
-
- Visualization
- -------------
- Pseudo-color for monochromatic visualization.
- True-color in 16-256 colors, HAM6 (old machines), HAM8 (AGA machines)
-
- Miscalleanous
- -------------
- ARexx port.
- Images composition
- Color model transformations (RBG <-> HSV)
- Statistics
- Transcoding for visualization
- Animations
-
-
- The current version of Lynx is a beta-version, so it might be some bugs
- left, and some (very few) functions aren't implanted yet.
-
- At this moment, only the french documentation is available, but an english
- documentation will be available soon.
-
- Lynx is developped on:
- - A500 with PPS 040
- - A4000/040
-
- Sucessfully tested on:
- - A4000/040
- - A1200 with/without FAST ram, coprocessor, accelerator card.
- - A3000
- - A500+
-
- Lynx works on any Amigas with Workbench 2.04+ installed. It takes care
- of installed chipset (OCS/ECS, AGA).
- It needs the reqtools.library which is not included here.
-
- If you have Workbench 2.1+, Lynx will be localized (french and english
- catalogs).
-
-
- If you have any problems, get in touch (addresses in main documentation).
-
- Stéphane.
-