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- From: midiapolis@cup.portal.com (Gerard Thomas Schwarz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: WarpIt Image Manipulation Tool ships for NeXT Computers
- Message-ID: <64235@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:15:39 PDT
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- WarpItTM Image Manipulation Tool for NeXTTM computers begins
- shipping, MIDIapolis Systems and Black Adder Research announce distribution
- agreement
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- MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 4 1992 -- Black Adder Research announced
- today the release of WarpIt, an image manipulation application for NeXT
- computers. MIDIapolis Systems announced an agreement with Black Adder
- Research in which MIDIapolis Systems will distribute WarpIt throught its
- dealers.
- "WarpIt is a powerful image processing too, the first of its
- kind on the NeXT platform", said William Rozzi, owner of Black Adder
- Research.
- WarpIt allows user to perform animated transformations of digital
- images, similar to the morphing effects featured in recent videos and
- feature films. For example, an image of a person's face could be distorted
- over a series of frames to make their nose grow. The resulting sequence
- may be edited, played back, and saved as an animation file.
- In addition to the non-linear mesh warp, WarpIt also includes
- rotation, shear, perspective, mirroring, and scale change operations, all
- implemented using non-aliasing algorithms.
- "It's another step towards establishing NeXT as a leader in the
- computer graphics world", said Gerard Schwarz, president of MIDIapolis
- Systems.
- WarpIt is expected to be used in a large variety of field including
- graphic arts for photo correction and electronic caricatures, law
- enforcement for mug shots using composites of warped real images, multi-
- media for still graphics and animations, cartography for image registration,
- and for the development of icons from real images.
- Because NeXT workstations have built-in Display PostscriptTM, the
- user sees high-quality graphics on the screen and on the printer. More than
- any other computer, the NeXT compuger provides true WYSIWIG (What you see
- is what you get) capabilities. WarpIt takes full advantage of these
- capabilities.
-
- Price and availability
-
- WarpIt is available now from MIDIapolis Systems dealers for a suggested
- list price of $###.##. For more information about WarpIt contact
- MIDIapolis SYstems directly.
-
- MIDIapolis Systems, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a software
- developer that specializes in multimedia and graphics software. WarpIt
- follows their release of SoundBursts Digital Sound Collections for
- NeXT Computers in March 1992.
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- Black Adder Research, located in Stillwater, Minnesota, was founded in
- 1991 to develop high-quality graphic tools for NeXT computers.
-
- Contacts:
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- Gerard Schwarz William Rozzi
- MIDIapolis Systems Black Adder Research
- 3208 W. Lake St Suite 133 730 Norell Ave North
- Minneapolis, MN 55416 Stillwater, MN 55082
- 612-822-1604 612-436-5021
- midiapolis@cup.portal.com
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- WarpIt and Black Adder Research are trademarks of Black Adder Research.
- NeXT is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. Display Postscript and
- Postscript are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc.
-