XMegaWave
XMegaWave (XMW) is a freeware graphical windows environment oriented
towards image processing. The development of XMW has been
based on the collaboration between researchers from the University of the
Balearic Islands (Spain), the University of Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and the University of Paris IX Dauphine
(France). The three main features of XMW are:
- XMW is an image processing environment with a graphical windows interface,
running on Unix workstations or Linux
machines. On the one hand, XMW is similar to typical drawing applications,
with different options to open and save images
in several formats (grey-level or color images), and draw different
geometric primitives. Also, it can work well with
sequences or arrays of images (called movies). On the other hand, XMW is
also a PhotoShop like software, where classical
procedures for image processing can be used.
- XMW is a programming library. The user can implement his own image
processing algorythm in C using the XMW library in a
very easy way. On the one hand, the library includes functions to create
and save images, show them on the screen, draw
their hystograms, etc. On the other hand, all the filters mentioned above
are accessible from code, so your algorythm can
use them as a prefiltering or postfiltering phase. These own functions
become a part of the XMW kernel, so the
environment can grow while users develop new filters.
- XMW is a pedagogic tool suitable for using in image processing classes. It
can be explained in just one class, and the
students can easily implement any kind of image filter and see results
immediately. The amount of code is really small,
and the time needed to debug is very short, because they do not need to be
worried about showing pictures on screen, save
files on disk, compute hystograms, etc. Also they do not need any knowledge
about complex windows programming libraries
(X11, Motif, OpenLook, etc.).
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Current Version: 1.3
License Type: Free Binaries
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Home Site:
http://amiserver.dis.ulpgc.es/xmwgus/
Source Code Availability: No
Available Binary Packages:
- Debian Package: No
- RedHat RPM Package: No
- Other Packages: No
Targeted Platforms:
Unix (SGI, SUN, HP), Linux. Windows NT support probably in version 2.0
Software/Hardware Requirements:
X11 and Motif libraries
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