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- From: huff@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu (Edward J. Huff)
- Newsgroups: sci.image.processing,comp.sys.mac.scitech,sci.answers,news.answers
- Subject: Macintosh Image Processing Information Sources (FAQ)
- Supersedes: <image-processing/Macintosh_756882013@GZA.COM>
- Followup-To: sci.image.processing
- Date: 10 Jan 1994 00:00:44 -0500
- Organization: NYU Chemistry Dept.
- Lines: 395
- Sender: faqserv@security.ov.com
- Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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- Expires: 8 Feb 1994 05:00:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <image-processing/Macintosh_758178011@GZA.COM>
- Reply-To: huff@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu (Edward J. Huff)
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- Summary: Macintosh Image Processing Information available via gopher, FTP,
- Usenet, e-mail, telephone, and snail mail.
- X-Last-Updated: 1993/10/26
- Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu sci.image.processing:4974 comp.sys.mac.scitech:834 sci.answers:799 news.answers:13920
-
- Archive-name: image-processing/Macintosh
- Sci-image-processing-archive-name: MacImageProc
- Comp-sys-mac-scitech-archive-name: MacImageProc
- Last-modified: 26 Oct 1993
- Version: 1.1.2
-
- How to find information about Macintosh Image Processing. Posted
- every two weeks to sci.image.processing, comp.sys.mac.scitech, sci.answers,
- news.answers.
-
-
- Topics:
- sci.image.processing archive has moved to port 71
- Macintosh Image Processing Gopher Sites
- Macintosh Image Processing FTP Sites
- Macintosh Image Processing Packages
- Other useful FAQ files
- About the Macintosh Image Processing FAQ
- Latest Software Versions.
- Where to find Mac TurboGopher.
- How to set up Mac TurboGopher.
- How to search the sci.image.processing archive.
- How to search for followups to an article.
- Where to find NIH Image
- NIH Image Mailing list
-
-
- This FAQ is in RFC 1153 format, except that the subject line does not
- contain the word "Digest" and the "Date" and "From" headers are omitted.
- (Is this better or worse than last time?)
-
- Some changes are in progress. The next release will be more complete.
- Some sections are deleted. Old versions of this posting remain available
- on the s.i.p archive. (25 copies per year :-)...
-
- This work is hereby placed in the public domain. (This notice is required
- to avoid copyright under the Berne convention.) You can do anything you
- want with it. But please don't change it without putting your name on it.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Subject: sci.image.processing archive has moved to port 71
-
- Your bookmarks will access a directory page which says the archive
- has moved (but doesn't say where). You will have to make a new
- bookmark, starting with "File/Another Gopher...", fill in the
- server name and change the default port from 70 to 71.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
- Subject: Macintosh Image Processing Gopher Sites
-
- Note: Gopher sites are not necessarily also FTP sites. It is possible for
- Gopher site maintainers to put links to these sites into their gophers.
-
- sci.image.processing archive
- skyking.oce.orst.edu PORT 71 (NONSTANDARD)
- Information From the Costal Imaging Lab/
- Sci.image.processing Newsgroup Archive/
- WAIS Indes to Articles
-
- nih-image mailing list archive
- gopher.soils.umn.edu port 70
- Computer Information/
- General Information/
- Search Nih-Image Mailing List Archives <?>
- Computer Information/
- General Information/
- Selected Electronic Mailing List Archives/
- Nih-image*/
-
- comp.sys.mac.scitech archive
- [does anyone know?]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Macintosh Image Processing FTP Sites
-
- As usual, user "anonymous" (spelled exactly as shown).
- Specify your e-mail address as the password.
- For more information, see [pointer to FTP FAQ next time].
-
- zippy.nimh.nih.gov /pub/nih-image
- rtfm.mit.edu /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/answers
- ruby.oce.orst.edu /pub/sci.image.processing
- boombox.micro.umn.edu /pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher
- ftp.soils.umn.edu:pub/info/email-lists/Nih-image*
-
- [more FTP sites next time]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Macintosh Image Processing Packages
-
- The pbmplus image processing package has been ported to MPW,
- I have a copy if anyone wants it. You need MPW. Apparently
- there is a shell program that can run MPW tools without MPW,
- but I have no information about it. A new version called
- netpbm has been released recently, but not ported to MPW yet.
-
- This list is taken from the NIH-Image 1.52 manual.
-
- BRAIN
- (2-DG and receptor autoradiography)
- Image and Computer Vision Center, Drexel University
- Philadelphia, PA
- 215-895-1381
-
- NCSA Image, PalEdit, Layout, and Gel Reader (all public domain)
- (Scientific visualization, palette editing, gels)
- NCSA, Champaign, IL
- 217-244-0072
- Anonymous ftp: zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
- DIP Station
- (Medical image analysis, 16-bits, surface rendering)
- Hayden Image Processing Group
- Boulder, Colorado
- 303-449-3433 (whc@po.cwru.edu)
-
- Photoshop
- (Color image processing, 24-bit to 8-bit color conversion,
- file conversion, plug-in modules)
- Adobe Systems
- Mountain View, CA
- 415-961-4400
- Enhance
- Micro Frontier
- Des Moines, Iowa
- 515-270-8109
-
- PixelTools, TCL-Image
- (Video rate processing, 1340x1035 frame grabber)
- Perceptics Corporation
- Knoxville, TN
- 615-966-9200
-
- The Explorer
- (Medical image analysis)
- UCLA
- Los Angeles, CA
- 213-825-0757
-
- Transform, View, Format, and Dicer
- (Scientific visualization, presentation graphics,
- volume visualization)
- Spyglass, Inc.
- Savoy, IL
- 217-355-6000
-
- Image Analyst
- Automatix
- Billerica, MA
- 508-667-7900
-
- VoxBlast
- (Volume rendering, video microscopy)
- VayTek,Inc
- Fairfield, Iowa
- 515-472-2227
-
- IPLab
- (FFT, >8-bits precision, 24-bit color, scripting)
- Signal Analytics
- Vienna, VA
- 703-281-3277
-
- VoxelView/Mac
- (Volume rendering)
- Vital Images
- Fairfield, Iowa
- 515-472-7726
-
- MedVision
- (Medical image analysis, multi-modality studies, 16-bits, extendible)
- Evergreen Technologies, Inc.
- Gaithersburg, MD
- 301-948-1800 (evergreen@applelink.apple.com) Ultimage
- GTFS Inc.
- Santa Rosa, CA
- 707-579-1733
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP Other useful FAQ files
-
- [more detail next time]
- The Archive-name header specifies the file name on the rtfm.mit.edu
- archive in the /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/answers subdirectory.
-
- sci.image.processing
- From: stanley@skyking.oce.orst.edu (John Stanley)
- Subject: Sci.image.processing FAQ (Huzzah!)
- Archive-name: <to be assigned> (Search s.i.p archive for "FAQ")
-
- I haven't looked at these recently, but check these newsgroups or
- look on the rtfm archive for FAQ files. Look in the directories
- for the group, e.g. /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/graphics.
-
- comp.graphics
- comp.soft-sys.khoros
- alt.pixutils
- [more next time]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP About the Macintosh Image Processing FAQ
-
- This is the first cut at a new streamlined FAQ that covers more than
- one site. More improvements will follow. Keep those suggestions
- coming in :-).
-
- Many thanks to John Stanley <stanley@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU> for setting up an
- archive of sci.image.processing. Nearly all posts to s.i.p are archived
- there and the full text can be searched rapidly using any Gopher client or
- WWW client. This is the preferred method, and the ONLY method described
- here. It should be possible to make a mirror or two of the archive on
- other continents (hint). This ought to give faster response for people
- there, although Gopher gives no feedback about where it is going for any
- particular piece of information
-
- To find out more about Gopher, ask in comp.infosystems.gopher or read
- "Gopher (comp.infosystems.gopher) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" which
- is posted every two weeks to comp.infosystems.gopher, or is available via
- anonymous FTP:
-
- rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq
-
- Those without FTP access should send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
- with "send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources" in the body to find out
- how to do FTP by e-mail. Or just "send usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq".
-
- To obtain the latest copy of THIS document,
- "send usenet/news.answers/image-processing/Macintosh".
-
- If you see this text as a separte message followed by several others from
- me, you must be running a newsreader like NN which has an option to split
- digests and present them as if each article were posted separately.
-
- Mail suggestions or comments to huff@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu (Edward J. Huff).
- Preferably, mail a modified copy of the whole file to reflect the changes
- you would like to see. I reserve the right to ignore impolite requests.
-
- I will not be maintaining any FAQ files for PC or Unix. Anyone else
- who would like to do so is encouraged. It isn't (that) hard.
-
- Also, I plan to include a list of useful search terms, i.e. specific terms
- that successfully bring up the desired answers, rather than quoting the
- answers themselves. This should also make obsolete copies of this FAQ a
- little less obsolete. Please send me successful search terms, especially
- if they are not entirely obvious.
-
- I am also looking at a Mac WWW client, and someday will get information
- added.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP Latest Software versions.
-
- As of 19 Oct 93:
-
- Mac TurboGopher latest release is curr.version.is.1.0.7f, beta test is
- TurboGopher1.0.8b1.hqx.
-
- The latest NIH Image is 1.52. The non-FPU version is for Macs which do
- not have a Floating Point Unit. Beta test is nih-image153b13.hqx.
-
- The latest IP Lab demo is 2.3.0h, on zippy.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP Where to find Mac TurboGopher
-
- Short answer: boombox.micro.umn.edu (134.84.132.2)
- in directory /pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher file TurboGopher.hqx
-
- Or if you already have an older copy, use the TurboGopher Distribution
- bookmark. As usual with Gopher, there is no indication about where on
- the internet it is going for the information, and it does not try to
- tell you. This could be fixed: the "TurboGopher Distribution" window
- ought to contain pointers to gopher servers which contain nearby copies...
-
- An "archie" search for Macintosh-TurboGopher found 25 copies at anonymous
- FTP sites around the world.
-
- Telnet to an archie server:
- archie.ans.net 147.225.1.10
- archie.unl.edu 129.93.1.14
- archie.sura.net 128.167.254.179
- archie.rutgers.edu 128.6.18.15
- archie.au 139.130.4.6
- archie.funet.fi 128.214.6.100
- archie.ncu.edu.tw 140.115.19.24
- archie.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.11.3
- archie.sogang.ac.kr 163.239.1.11
-
- Login as user "archie", and enter "prog Macintosh-TurboGopher". Conserve
- bandwidth, FTP from a nearby site.
-
- As usual, archie is not a perfect solution, since archivists have a
- tendency to change file names and since the file you are looking for
- changes with the version. This search string has been tested on
- archie.ans.net and it found 25 sites. Other reasonable searchs are
- TurboGopher.sit.hqx and TurboGopher.hqx, but many of the sites use file
- names like turbogopher1.05.sit.hqx. Is there a better way?
-
- If you cannot telnet or if you use archie a lot, client software is
- available on ftp.ans.net:/pub/archie/clients; documentation in
- /pub/archie/doc. Maybe it works better than the telnet version?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP How to set up Mac TurboGopher
-
- (1) Unbinhex and unstuff it. Fetch will unbinhex it automatically while
- obtaining it from the FTP site. You need one of the Stuffit programs to
- uncompress TurboGopher. Look in comp.sys.mac.* for more information. Once
- you have TurboGopher, you can use it to get the lastest version.
-
- (2) Of course, you need MacTCP properly installed in your system folder,
- and a TCP connection to the Internet. Ask you local network manager for
- help.
-
- (3) Double click on TurboGopher. Choose "File/Another Gopher" and type
- skyking.oce.orst.edu into the dialog box, and change the default port
- from 70 to 71.
-
- A window titled "skyking.oce.orst.edu" will appear. Double click on
- "Information From the Costal Imaging Lab" and another window will open.
- There you will find "Sci.image.processing Newsgroup Archive". Select the
- line and choose "Gopher/Set Bookmark" to create a bookmark to the archive.
- Then, you can quit from TurboGopher, restart it, and the archive will
- appear as an item in your "Bookmarks" window.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP How to search the sci.image.processing archive using TurboGopher
-
- The first item in the archive window is "WAIS Indes to Articles". Further
- down is a folder "Raw Articles." Ignore the folder and use the index.
- Double click on the question mark icon, and a dialog box appears: "Find
- documents containing these words:". Enter FAQ and a window titled FAQ will
- appear. There you can see the complete history of the discussions on when
- and if a FAQ posting should appear in sci.image.processing, and also any
- other article which happens to contain the word "FAQ".
-
- I suppose that every time this FAQ gets reposted, it is going to be
- reentered in the archive. Maybe there is a way to prevent that.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP How to search for followups to an article
-
- You can copy the "article-ID" header string and paste it into the search
- box. This frequently produces more articles than desired, since each
- substring delimited by periods etc. is treated as a separate word.
-
- One useful solution to this would be for the original poster to put some
- unique single word string in the subject line. Or someday, the index
- software could be modified to treat article-ID strings as single words.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP Where to find NIH Image
-
- NIH Image is a public domain image processing package for the Macintosh.
-
- The home site for NIH Image is zippy.nimh.nih.gov in directory /pub/nih-image.
- Copies exist in many places. Wayne has changed his file names to include
- nih-image rather than just image, so that archie should be able to find
- copies, provided that other archivists preserve the name.
-
- Another good location is sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6)
- /info-mac/grf/util and mirrors of that site.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacIP NIH Image Mailing list
-
-
- Subscribing to the new NIH Image mailing list is good way to get in contact
- with other Image users and to get questions answered. It was set up by a
- group in the Soil Science Department at the University of Minnesota. To
- subscribe, send a message containing the line "subscribe nih-image <your
- name>" to listserv@soils.umn.edu. ("Your name" is your actual name,
- NOT your e-mail address. The e-mail address comes from the headers).
-
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-
- End of Macintosh Image Processing Information Sources (FAQ)
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