VICAR file r/w - status
Daren Scot Wilson <[email protected]>
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It was just over one year ago i volunteered to add VICAR format read/write capability to Cinepaint. Turns out that volunteering to do something during the busy holiday season and while one is involved with writing papers on exciting astronomical discoveries, is not a good idea. For months i hadn't done much, but now i have brushed aside other things to get back to work on this. Believe it or not, after 2.5 years of Cassini in orbit around Saturn, most Cassini scientists still don't have an easy standalone handy tool to look at the raw VICAR images. We use complicated web apps and clumsy GUI programs that look like they were written by scientists. I hacked XV to read VICAR; that's the closest to a handy tool we have for now. There are a lot of things XV is no good at. Those of us doing daily production work (e.g. cover image for December National Geographic) use GIMP and like it. Of course it's only 8 bit/channel. So, there still exists demand for Cinepaint with VICAR, at least where i work. I don't know how many other potential user there are for this feature, but it is worth doing. So i resume this work. Now, exactly where to start? add VICAR to Glasgow 0.1 since it's the fresh new thing? Or the latest CVS of Cinepaint or some particular past snapshot? -- Daren Scot Wilson Boulder, CO ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV