From: midiapolis@cup.portal.com
Subject: PRODUCT: WarpItTM Image Manipulation Tool and Distribution Agreement
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Keywords: WarpIt Imaging Distribution Photo Correction
Reply-To: midiapolis@cup.portal.com
Organization: MIDIapolis Systems
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 06:47:32 GMT

MIDIapolis Systems			Black Adder Research
3208 W. Lake St. Suite 133		730 Norell Ave North
Minneapolis  MN  55416			Stillwater  MN  55082
612-822-1604				612-436-5021
midiapolis@cup.portal.com

Contact: Gerard Schwarz			William Rozzi
	 MIDIapolis Systems		Black Adder Research
	 612-822-1604			612-436-5021

WarpItTM Image Manipulation Tool for NeXTTM computers begins shipping,
MIDIapolis Systems and Black Adder Research announce distribution agreement

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 4 1992 -- Black Adder Research announced today
the release of WarpIt, an image manipulation application for NeXT computers.
MIDIapolis Systems announced an agreement with Black Adder Research in which
MIDIapolis Systems will distribute WarpIt through its dealers.
	"WarpIt is a powerful image processing tool, the first of its kind
on the NeXT platform", said William Rozzi, owner of Black Adder Research.
	WarpIt allows users to perform animated transformations of digital
images, similar to the morphing effects featured in recent videos and feature
films. For example, an image of a person's face could be distorted over a
series of frames to make their nose grow. The resulting sequence may be
edited, played back, and saved as an animation file.
	In addition to the non-linear mesh warp, WarpIt includes rotation,
shear, perspective, mirroring, and scale change operations, all implemented
using non-aliasing algorithms.
	"It's another step towards establishing NeXT as a leader in the
computer graphics world," said Gerard Schwarz, president of MIDIapolis
Systems.
	WarpIt is expected to be used in a large variety of fileds including
graphic arts for photo correction and electronic caricatures, law enforcement
for mug shots using composites of warped real images, multimedia for still
graphics and animations, cartography for image registration, and for the 
development of icons from real images.
	Because NeXT workstations have built-in Display PostscriptTM, the
user sees high-quality graphics on the screen and on the printer. More than
any other computer, the NeXT computer provides true WYSIWIG (What you see is
what you get) capabilities. WarpIt takes full advantage of these
capabilities.

Price and availability

WarpIt is available now from MIDIapolis Systems' dealers for a suggested
list price of $XXX.XX. For more information about WarpIt contact MIDIapolis
Systems directly.

MIDIapolis Systems, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a software
developer that specializes in multimedia and graphics software. WarpIt
follows their release of SoundBursts Digital Sound Collections for NeXT
computers in March 1992.

Black Adder Research, located in Stillwater, Minnesota, was founded in 1991
to develop high-quality graphic tools for NeXT computers.

WarpIt, Black Adder Research, and the Black Adder Research logo are
trademarks of Black Adder Research. NeXT is a trademark of NeXT Computer,
Inc. Display Postscript and Postscript are registered trademarks of Adobe
Systems, Inc.
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