| Re: Looking for general purpose image display. [message #8968 is a reply to message #8961] |
Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00   |
Lucio Chiappetti
Messages: 2
Registered: May 1997
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Dyer Lytle wrote:
> I'm about to write a general purpose image display widget in IDL
> similar in functionality to SAOimage. I figure something like
Why do you want to do that ? SAOimage is perfectly fine as it is,
and is a standalone, free tool. Does not require licenses, is quite
small and precompiled ...
> query this newsgroup before I re-invent the wheel.
Although I quite like reinventing wheels :-) particularly when it
involves inventing new stainless steel wheels for cars, or small
plastic wheels for trolleys instead of wooden ox-cart wheels, if you
follow my metaphore, I do not see much the case here :
I actually use essentially three families of programs :
- my own Fortran programs for "production" analysis, and also for
some quick look display of data (a little Xlib-based set, mainly
plots, although can do images as well)
- although I have my image display capabilities, I prefer SAOimage for
quick look display of images
_ I use IDL (as a language, with little pieces of code I keep in
scratchpad files, not necessarily always full-fledged .pro files)
mainly for :
- testing preliminary algorithms before doing the final coding
in Fortran
- doing "one off" massaging to data
- doing publication-quality plots (this includes plotting images
in more-or-less fancy ways which would be too costly to reprogram,
like contour or isometric plots ; it also includes some greyscale
or colour display of images in ps files, although I'm quite
unsatisfied of the way IDL handles this)
Of course this does not mean YOU may not have valid reasons of your own to do
what you plan.
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