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- From: midiapolis@cup.portal.com
- Subject: PRODUCT: WarpItTM Image Manipulation Tool and Distribution Agreement
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.064732.17632@liveware.com>
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 06:47:32 GMT
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- 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
-
- Contact: Gerard Schwarz William Rozzi
- MIDIapolis Systems Black Adder Research
- 612-822-1604 612-436-5021
-
- WarpItTM Image Manipulation Tool for NeXTTM computers begins shipping,
- MIDIapolis Systems and Black Adder Research announce distribution agreement
-
- 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 through its dealers.
- "WarpIt is a powerful image processing tool, the first of its kind
- on the NeXT platform", said William Rozzi, owner of Black Adder Research.
- WarpIt allows users 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 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 fileds including
- graphic arts for photo correction and electronic caricatures, law enforcement
- for mug shots using composites of warped real images, multimedia 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 computer 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 $XXX.XX. 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.
-
- Black Adder Research, located in Stillwater, Minnesota, was founded in 1991
- to develop high-quality graphic tools for NeXT computers.
-
- WarpIt, Black Adder Research, and the Black Adder Research logo 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.
-