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From: blanford@gemstone.com (Ron Blanford)
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Emerald Image Tool version 1.1 MAB
Date: 4 Jul 1994 17:34:27 -0400
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Lyndon Hardy
Gemstone Systems, Inc.
310-370-4557
info@gemstone.com
GEMSTONE SYSTEMS INTRODUCES EMERALD IMAGE TOOL
TORRANCE, Calif. - 4 July 1994 - Gemstone Systems, Inc. today introduced
the first multi-architecture release of its Emerald Image Tool. Designed
explicitly to manipulate very large images with high quality operations at
interactive speed, Emerald Image Tool represents a new level of power for
desktop image processing. Version 1.1 runs on NeXT, Inc.'s NEXTSTEP
operating environment for Motorola or Intel processors, release 3.0 or
greater.
Emerald Image Tool is designed to handle large images from high resolution
photography, satellites, and radiology. Controls are designed for high
precision and ease of use. Emerald's part-to-whole approach allows users
to quickly and interactively determine the right manipulation on a piece
of the image (or a reduced resolution version of the image) and then apply
that manipulation as a background process to the entire image, freeing the
interactive controls for other tasks.
``We were dissatisfied with image processing software on the market and
recognized that the new generation of desktop computers had the power to
meet our needs,'' according to Dr. Lyndon Hardy, Gemstone co-founder, ``So
we wrote our own software. It came out so well that we decided to polish
it as a product for others who have demanding requirements.''
Images may be imported from TIFF, raw, Landsat, and other formats into an
interaction-optimized format. Image size can vary from the smallest icons
to images of 100's of megabytes. Image types can range from black and
white to 24 or 48-bit color, to multiband satellite imagery (such as
7-band Landsat).
The Emerald pipeline architecture allows the user to apply operations
without regard to order, and a user can go back to earlier operations to
change the settings or undo the changes without affecting later
operations. This order independence provides a tremendous productivity
boost by reducing trial dead ends.
``We chose NEXTSTEP because of the attention to color, imaging, and the
expansive architecture that NeXT put into their products,'' says Mark
Thomsen, Gemstone co-founder. ``The environment did not force us to make
compromises, allowing our engineers to produce a clean and intuitive
product.''
Emerald Image Tool is available for $400 per user license.
Gemstone Systems is a privately-held software and consulting company in
Torrance, CA. Emerald Image Tool is the first product. Consulting is
provided on NEXTSTEP software, distributed systems, real-time systems,
object-oriented programming, and analytic designs.
Gemstone Systems, the Gemstone Systems logo, and Emerald Image Tool are
trademarks of Gemstone Systems, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark
of NeXT Computer, Inc.