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- Image & Less Menus
- ------------------
-
- These menus contain a variety of functions for modifying
- images.
-
-
- Image Menu
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-
- Most of these functions have the ability to perform image
- processing operations on an entire image or only part of
- an image.
-
- To apply to only part of an image:
-
- 1. Pick the "Select" icon (rectangle of dashed
- lines) in the paint control box.
- 2. Place the mouse pointer in the upper left
- corner of the region of interest.
- 3. Press and hold down the left mouse button.
- 4. Drag the mouse pointer to the lower right
- corner of the region of interest.
- 5. Finally release the mouse button.
- 6. Pick a function from the Image or Less menu.
-
- Mirror - Reverses left and right.
- Invert - Reverses top and bottom.
- Rotate - Rotates image by 90 degrees.
- Smooth - Applies a low pass filter which blurs the
- image slightly
- nois redUc - Random Noise Reduction.
- nois reduc - Another Random Noise Reduction technique.
- Negative - Reverses colors, much like a photographic
- negative.
- luminance - Converts to B+W image using a weighted
- average of Red, Green, and Blue components.
- Red to gray - B+W image from Red component only.
- Green to gray - B+W image from Green component only.
- Blue to gray - B+W image from Blue component only.
- Pseudo color - Converts brightness to a color of the
- rainbow for an interesting effect.
-
- Fix Scottie - A couple people implementing the Scottie modes
- missed a subtle point about the order of the
- sync and RGB color components. You will
- notice two problems when receiving pictures
- from these systems.
-
- (1) The timing relationship between the
- vertical sync (VIS) and the horizontal
- sync is way off. This will result in
- the gray scale header display being torn
- up. Several scan lines are required to
- get back in step.
-
- (2) The red component is not aligned with
- the green and blue components. If an
- image contained a white object on a
- black background you would see
-
- red shadow
- white object
- :
- white object
- cyan shadow
-
- This menu item shifts the red component
- down to line up properly with the others.
-
- Pasokon TV is fully compatible with the
- original (Robot 1200C) implementation.
-
- A region of the image must be selected before using these three
- functions:
-
- Zoom - The selected region is expanded to fill
- the entire image.
-
- Shrink - The whole image is shrunk to fit inside the
- selected region.
-
- Graph RGB - Plots the red, green, and blue components
- of the selected lines.
-
- The final two items are used to combine 4 or 2 separate images
- into a single image. Selecting a region first makes no
- difference.
-
- 4 into 1 - Shrinks four different images to half size and
- combines them into one.
- When you pick this menu item the mouse cursor
- changes to a square with the upper left
- quadrant transparent.
- Click on one of the thumbnail of the image you
- want to appear in the upper left quadrant.
- The cursor changes so the upper right quadrant
- is transparent. Click on the thumbnail of
- the image you want in this quadrant.
- Repeat this for two more images.
-
- L+R into 3D - Combines left and right eye views into a
- single 3D image for viewing with Red/Blue
- glasses.
- The cursor changes to a pair of glasses with
- a transparent left lense. Click on the
- thumbnail for the left eye view.
- The cursor changes to a pair of glasses with
- a transparent right lense. Click on the
- thumbnail for the right eye view.
- The resulting image has the red component from
- the left eye view and the blue from the right
- eye view.
-
- Use this procedure to compose a 3D picture with
- a TV camera:
- 1. Click on thumbnail 1.
- 2. Digitize image for left eye view.
- 3. Click on thumbnail 2.
- 4. Shift TV camera to right for different angle.
- 5. Digitize image for right eye view.
- 6. Click on thumbnail 3 for result destination.
- 7. Pick "L+R into 3D" from Image menu.
- 8. Click on thumbnail 1 then thumbnail 2.
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- Less Menu
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-
- The Less menu items are used to reduce the resolution or number
- of colors in an image.
-
- Pasokon TV stores images with 24 bits per pixel which allows
- about 16 million different colors.
-
- The red, green, and blue components each have 8 bits. This
- allows 256 different intensities for each of red, green, and
- blue. 256 x 256 x 256 is about 16 million.
-
- Some people say you can't tell the difference between
- 32,000 and 16,000,000 colors. Others might say there is a
- world of difference. Judge for yourself if your VGA display
- adapter displays 16 million colors.
-
- Seven menu items allow you to reduce the number of colors in
- the current image. If part of the image is selected, only
- that part of the image will be affected and the rest is left
- alone. If there is not a region selected, the entire image
- is affected.
-
- Bits for Shades of Total
- each of R,G,B each colors
- ------------- --------- --------
- 7 128 about 2 million
- 6 64 about 250,000
- 5 32 32,768
- 4 16 4,096
- 3 8 512
- 2 4 64
- 1 2 8
-
-
- The remaining menu items allow you to reduce the resolution
- of an image. This is accomplished by replacing groups of
- pixels with the average of that group. For example, the
- Quarter menu item will divide the image into 4 x 4 groups
- of pixels and replace all in each group with the average
- of the 16 in that group.
-
- Reduce by Effective
- Menu item Factor Resolution
- --------- ------ ----------
- Half 2 320 x 240
- Quarter 4 160 x 120
- Eigth 8 80 x 60
- Sixteenth 16 40 x 30
-
- This can produce some interesting special effects when applied
- to part of an image but not the rest. For example, try
- selecting a person's face and picking Eigth to protect his/her
- identity.
-