This demonstration programme was created by DejaView, the Image-Management system from R&B Software.
It is, in effect, an electronic book. You can page through using 'Next' or 'Previous', or you can jump to a particular page by selecting 'Options/Page' and typing in a number. You can even set the 'Options/Carousel' and watch the programme page itself automatically.
This 24bit graphics image, created in CorelDraw by Bernard Barnes, occupies only 34k of disk space. An equivalent BMP or Trueprint file would occupy 1.3 Mb.
If the image you are seeing is corrupted you need to set your system to 256 colours in 'Windows Setup/Options'.
An Index of all the pages in this demo is available on page 40.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\glast3.fif░This programme contains 40 images. Each one has been compressed to a fraction of its original size, so that the entire collection, together with the decompression and viewing software can fit onto a single floppy disk.
Try it if you like. Copy the contents of the DV directory (including the Gallery subdirectory) from the CD-Rom onto a blank 1.4Mb floppy or to any directory on your C: drive. You could then run it from the A: drive or from the directory on the C: drive by double clicking 'viewer.exe' in the file manager.
Give the floppy disk to your friends to view on their machines. The programme is entirely portable.
This photograph of the mechanism of a watch occupies only 16k.
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░c:\dv\gallery\gears2.fif░This demonstration was put together very quickly from a library of 250 images. The whole library only occupies 4Mb of space on a hard drive, thanks to the revolutionary compression software used in DejaView.
Using DejaView you could put together Portfolios like this in seconds, using the 'Portfolio Editor' window. Here you can write the textfile, insert the pictures wherever you choose, endlessly refining or adapting the portfolio to achieve to results you wish.
Then the portfolio can be saved in your library as an entry in itself. Or it can be downloaded onto a single floppy and become a 'Standalone' capable of being displayed independently of DejaView.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\cb_tiger.fif░The 250 images come free with the programme, but you are not confined to them. You can easily create your own library, using the DejaView Compressor. Compression is done from 24-bit BMP and TGA files with an original file size of up to 500,000 pixels, (an image of 800*600)
Compression times depend upon the speed of your processor, but you can expect a couple of minutes at least, per file. There is a batch utility to make this a simple job.
Compression need only be done once. The decompressed images can be viewed in seconds, as you can see from this portfolio.
For more details on Fractal Compression Technology see page 36.
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░c:\dv\gallery\cb_blast.fif░DejaView I is an inexpensive image management utility that compresses, indexes, searches and displays 24-bit graphics files. It also enables you to link textfiles with any image, or even create textfiles within the DejaView wordprocessor.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\gears.fif░DEJA VIEW'S decimilised index (based on the Dewy system in Libraries, but fully customisable) enables you to search on up to 10 parameters out of 100. Precise 'Word searches' on several data entries for precise locations.
This image was found by searching under 'Camel', but 'ca' or 'dro' would have located it. An index search on 'Animal' or 'Middle East' or better still 'Animal' and 'Middle East' would have located it. (For more information on the DejaView indexing system see page 37)
The following text also accompanied the image, and you can read through it by using scroll bar on the right of the text window. If you prefer to view the text as a whole screen display try clicking on the 'Maximise' button (Top Right of the Bar Menu, clicking there again will restore it to its original size).
Camels are of two kinds: the two humped, or Bactrian (Camelus batrianus), and also the one-humped, or Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius). Two-humped camels are found from China to Turkestan; one-humped camels live in the desert regions of Arabia and Egypt. At present, camels exist only in domestication, except for small remnants of wild herds in the Gobi Desert. Camels have served man as beasts of burden for countless centuries. they were one of the first hoofed animals ever to be domesticated, The Koran, bible of the Moslems, calls the camel an example of God's wisdom because of its importance to desert people. Heavily loaded with 400 to 600 pounds, camels can travel 30 miles in a single day. They run by swinging both legs in one side forward at the same time, not alternating sides as horses do. Camel flesh and milk provide food and drink; their skins are tanned to make leather. Recent research has shown that camels do not store water in their stomach, but absorb large quantities throughout the body tissues. Their humps are stored fat. Heavy fringes of hair around their eyes and nostrils protect them from flying sand, and their broad feet help them to move easily through the sand of the deserts. Camels eat tough desert plants and chew their cud like cows. Their stomach is three-chambered. Camels may live to an age of 25 years.
░c:\dv\gallery\camel.fif░By combining single entries, like this woodcut of the rolling-mill to a textfile on the steel industry, you can build up a database of information. By linking these images and their textfiles together into Portfolios which can be independently indexed and entered into the database, you can create articles, demonstrations, lessons or advertising material that transform the database into an Encyclopaedia.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\rollmill.fif░DejaView is an Encyclopaedic Shell.
This demonstration disk could be just one article in your own personal encyclopaedia, an encyclopaedia that is dynamically changing as your information grows.
And it can all be packed onto you hard disk!
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░c:\dv\gallery\cliff2.fif░This could transform the way you use your computer. From being a tool your computer will become a resource.
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░c:\dv\gallery\oregon1.fif░All the beautiful images you can download from Bulletin boards or find on CD-Roms or hold on Kodak CDs can now be compressed and held in your DejaView Gallery for IMMEDIATE reference, and IMMEDIATE use. If you want the original image in its uncompressed form a reference number on the DejaView library will locate it. The quality of the compressed image however will probably mean that you will not need the original again. You can use the compressed image, and pass it to your other programmes via the clipboard.
For more details on creating compressed files see page 35.
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░c:\dv\gallery\cb_beef.fif░To see how transferable these images are, try this experiment:
Press Alt+'Print Scrn' (the button on the top line of your keyboard). The owl will now be waiting in the clip-board ready for you to paste into any document. You can resize the picture window before doing this, including clicking on the maximizing button on the top right of the control box if you want a full screen image. You can return it to its present size by clicking the double arrow in the same position.
You can now open most decent wordprocessors, DTP packages or Paintbox packages and select 'Edit/Paste' to insert the image into the document.
It's as simple as that.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\cb_owl.fif░The images are also portable in a different way.
Fractal Transform technology makes practical the compression of large data files into manageable sizes, thus enabling viable transmission using modems and ISDN lines.
Through DejaView you will have the technology to create portfolios of images and text that can be transmitted in minutes to the other side of the world via the Internet. Within minutes your client in New York or Tokyo could be paging through a document like this.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\hndshake.fif░What does the press say about DejaView?
CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY:
"DejaView has been designed for all professionals working in the image industry and any professional who needs to incorporate images into printed material. For photographers specifically it is a superb piece of kit and for ú65 it's worth every penny"
PHOTO ANSWERS:
"For anyone with a lot of slides on file this is a real timesaver. A handy way to use your PC to organise your photos. Overall rating= four-star "
PC MAGAZINE:
"Deja View is a useful utility. It simplifies the management of 24-bit graphic files through the use of fractal compression and an easy-to-use indexing system."
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\cb_blond.fif░Artists and designers who continuously require reference material for their work inevitably build up a personal library of images.
DejaView is ideal for turning that library into a powerful and adaptable tool.
Create portfolios to send to your clients, cutting out the expense and delay of slide collections or the printing of expensive colour catalogues.
This is a charcoal drawing by Bernard Barnes of a Caravanserai in Istanbul.
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░c:\dv\gallery\bbcarava.fif░You can now send you visual ideas to clients in a matter of seconds. Get their approval before you work up the final illustration.
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░c:\dv\gallery\tin2.fif░Teachers can build useful databases of images on specialised subjects that can be endlessly reused in the creation of tailor-made lessons.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\cb_dolph.fif░You could create an illustrated Linnaeus classification system in zoology by customising the index window of DejaView.
Here is a collection of animals:
Note that when a picture is not accompanied by text in the portfolio, it automatically expands to fill the picture window.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
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░c:\dv\gallery\birdred.fif░Museums and libraries can prepare special disks on particular parts of their collection or archive, on rare plants, for example, for sale or loan.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\brom.fif░The printing of a catalogue continuing 40 full colour photographs can be very expensive.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
░c:\dv\gallery\cutulip.fif░With DejaView individual portfolios of images are easily produced, and disks are simple and cheap to copy.
Click on 'Next' (or press Enter) to see the next page.
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░c:\dv\gallery\rose.fif░What is a Fractal?
The fractal technology used in DΘjα View is based on an esoteric branch of mathematics called Fractal geometry. The files, compressed Fractal Image Format (FIF) have several special qualities.
They are usually very small, typically between 10 KB to 30KB for full-screen images, and can be as small as 3K. The compression ratios on high resolution images average 50-1 and can reach as high as 100-1.
Some compression techniques require every PC to be fitted with a hardware decompression board to achieve acceptable display times. FIFs decompress very quickly and travel more quickly than most over networks and phone lines because of their tiny size.
FIF files are resolution independent because of the sophistication of the underlying mathematics. This means FIF files can be used at different resolutions (sizes), including resolutions larger than the original image. The same FIF file can be used for both standard and high resolution monitors or at different sizes. Even though tiny, FIF files also contain full 24-bit colour information so they look as good when printed as they do on the screen. (Many image formats contain only 8-bits). FIF's 24-bit format protects your investment by ensuring that your pictures look great on next year's 16-bit and 24-bit displays, as well as on an 8-bit SVGA screen today.
Fractals are objects with similar elements at different scales. Most visual information is naturally fractal, for example, a tree branch is similar in shape to the whole tree, but it is smaller and is seen at a more horizontal angle. Iterate Systems uses a patented process called Fractal Transform technology to encode pictures mathematically by finding these relationships. Fractal formulas are much smaller than the pictures they represent, hence, 'compression' of the image occurs.
░c:\dv\gallery\zinia.fif░Topographical or archaeological collections can be easily built up and explored. Electronic books on 'The Castles of Britain' could be produced for sale in bookshops or information offices. Textfiles of considerable length can accompany each image.
Electronic Publishing has never been so easy!
░c:\dv\gallery\gate.fif░Harlech Castle.
Harlech was placed on a superb natural site, for in the thirteenth century the waters of Cardigan Bay were over half a mile closer and lapped the foot of the immense crag on which the castle rests. Hence there was a harbour built onto the crag, so that the castle could be supplied and reinforced by sea. This was guarded by walls which, as it were, constituted part of the outer bailey and extending down the cliff. The approach to the upper fortress from the water-gate was a steep path cut into the rock, defended at a point two-thirds up its course by a gate with a ditch and drawbridge, and terminating in a postern gate under the command of the south-west corner tower.
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░c:\dv\gallery\moat.fif░Caerphilly Castle
The Largest Castle in Wales
Caerphilly was not only the earliest concentric castle in Britain, it was also remarkable for its size and its water defences. covering thirty acres, it is easily the biggest castle in Wales, and the terrifically high standards of its masonry and cementation ensured its survival, virtually intact, despite 'slighting' under the Commonwealth. The technical experience gained in the Kennilworth waterworks was put to good use. The castle stands on an island surrounded by an artifical lake, created by a great screen wall or dam, heavily defended, which controls the input of water from a stream; this wall also serves as a formidable barbican protecting the approach from the east.
░c:\dv\gallery\caer.fif░PROGRAMMING TOOLS
Photographic images add tremendous impact and value to databases and multimedia applications. Lamentably, images devour disk space at an alarming rate.
R&B Software can help you shell to a 'Viewer' from an existing database to add images to your data or enable you to associate 'FIF Files' with a viewer to open them directly from the File manager.
For details of these and other applications, please contact:
░c:\dv\gallery\church.fif░ The DejaView Compressor creates 'Fif' files from 24 bit BMP (bitmap) files or TGA files, enabling very small files to be made with very little loss of picture quality. The files are small enough to make it feasible to store thousands of images on a hard disk, and DΘjα View gives you the facilities to recall them instantly and accurately.
The 'Fif' files decompress quickly, but there are trade-offs to be made in the time it takes to compress the image files. The larger the starting file or the smaller the destination file, the longer the compression time. On average an image of 640 X 400 pixels takes about 3.5 minutes to compress; increasing the compression ratio slide or starting with a larger image will increase this procedure. For these reasons DΘjα viewer provides you with a Batch file compressor, enabling you to list all the BMP or TGA files you wish to compress and leave the computer to process them while you are busy with other things.
The performance of your hardware is also relevant; an 80486/50 machine will compress the largest acceptable image size (640 * 768 pixels) in approx. 2 minutes 7 seconds, while a 80386/33 may take up to 15 minutes to perform the same task.
Once the file has been compressed however, it never needs to be done again.
At the heart of the 'DΘjα View' Library is the Index. Each item filed can be 'tagged' with up to 10 categories selected from the index. When index searches are made these categories are used.
For example, if you describe a photograph as 'People', 'Photograph', 'Africa', 'Bronze Age', 'Sculpture & Pottery' you will ensure that the precise entry can be found later. You will be able to locate it if you look for 'Africa', but everything else filed under 'Africa' will be presented as well. You will be able to reduce the number found by looking under 'Africa' and 'Bronze Age', and the more you put in the more precise your search will become. Up to 10 categories can be used for a Search.
'DΘjα View' provides you with a useful ready-made index but it is likely that you will want to create a new index or add to the existing one to customise it to your specialist interests.
░c:\dv\gallery\fcastle.fif░ The breakthrough that makes mass storage feasible is the technology of fractal image compression, invented by Dr Michael Barnsley and licensed by Iterate systems. Outperforming both JPEG and MPEG systems it is now the cutting edge of compression technology. It was the system selected by Microsoft to compress all 7000 images in Encarta.
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░c:\dv\gallery\capitol2.fif░ Index
1. Introduction.
Arthurian Glastonbury.
2. Making a 'Standalone Demo'.
Watch mechanism I.
3. Editing Portfolios.
Tiger.
4. File Compression.
Blast-off.
5. Linking Textfiles.
Watch Mechanism II.
6. Decimilised Index.
Camel.
7. The Rolling-mill.
Combining entries.
8. Encyclopaedic Shell.
Mountain landscape.
9. Computer as resource.
Deserted beach.
10. Image Capture.
Model soldiers.
11. Copying & Pasting.
Owl.
12. DejaView & the Internet.
Handshake.
13. What the Press Says.
Portrait.
14. DejaView for artists.
Charcoal drawing.
15. Tintagel illustration.
16. DejaView for Teachers.
Girl with dolphin.
17. Customizing.
Gibbon.
18. Expanding the window.
19. Bobcat.
20. Butterfly in forest.
21. Bird 1.
22. Bird 2.
23. Red Parrott.
24. DejaView for Museums.
Bromidea.
25. Inexpensive catalogue.
Tulips.
26. Cheap and Easy.
The Rose.
27. Orchid.
28. Pansies.
29. Red Rose.
30. What is a fractal?
Chrysanthemum.
31. Castle's of Britain.
Bishop's castle- Wells.
32. Harlech Castle.
33. Leeds Castle- Kent.
34. Caerphilly Castle.
35. Help for Programmers.
Orthodox Church.
36. Details on Compressing.
Tanners.
37. Indexing with DejaView.
French Castle.
38. The White House.
39. Iterate Systems
Links
40. Index.
Still Water.
41. The Earth.
░c:\dv\gallery\river1.fif░Deja View will run on IBM compatible 386SX PC or higher with Windows 3.1. A Standard SVGA card capable of displaying 256 colours is recommended..
If you only have a 16 colour display available you can still run the program but you will not be able to see the FIF files at their best.
DejaView costs ú65 plus ú2.50 P&P.
If you wish to order this programme you can print out your order form by selecting 'Options/Print Order' and fill in the form.
