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# This file contains product information that can be used by
# KingFisher 2.0 and other similar tools.
.name
FastJPEG
.aminet-dir
gfx/show
.type
Picture Viewer
.short
JPEG viewer, both fast and good quality.
.description
FastJPEG is a fast JPEG picture viewer. Besides being fast, it has
many other advantages. An important goal was to not trade quality for
speed. In fact, FastJPEG is both fast and has an excellent quality.
Most other JPEG viewers either produce ugly pictures, or need ages to
perform the conversion to HAM mode.
The key to the improved quality is a technique called `dithering',
where colors not displayable on the Amiga are approximated by giving
neighboring pixels similar colors, which the eye then mixes to the
desired one.
A common variety of this method is the `Floyd-Steinberg' error
dispersion algorithm, which is very time intensive, but produces the
best pictures.
FastJPEG does not use this method, as it would drastically reduce
performance. The dithering method used in FastJPEG, however, produces
pictures of similar quality.
.version
1.10
.date
1994.2.26
.author
Christoph Feck
.distribution
Copyrighted but Freely Redistributable
.address
TowerSystems
Balbierstrasse 6
D-67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany
.email
feck@informatik.uni-kl.de
.docs
FastJPEG.guide
.described-by
Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
.submittal
Downloaded via ftp from aminet (wuarchive.wustl.edu).
.contents
FastJPEG FastJPEG is a fast JPEG picture viewer. Besides being fast,
it has many other advantages. An important goal was to not
trade quality for speed. In fact, FastJPEG is both fast
and has an excellent quality. Most other JPEG viewers
either produce ugly pictures, or need ages to perform the
conversion to HAM mode. Version 1.10, binary only.
Author: Christoph Feck