From: ekkers@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Rob Ekkers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: TIMWIN image processing program
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:12:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Delft University of Technology


                  Upload to CICA - Announcement
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On CICA is available a demo version of TIM for Windows (TIMWIN).

What is TIMWIN?
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TIMWIN is a program for scientific image processing. Scientific image 
processing is processing images to extract information from them.
TIMWIN is commercially available.

What is TIMWIN not?
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TIMWIN is *not* a package for presentation or desktop publishing 
purposes, like Photoshop etc.

What can TIMWIN do?
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TIMWIN gives you facilities to extract and analyse the information that 
is hidden in your images. For this purpose 200 image processing 
operations are available, in the categories:
* Pixel Operations for pixel to pixel conversions
* Bitplane and cellular logic operations for morphology analysis
* Geometric Operations to rotate and scale images
* Input/Output Operations to manage images
* Parameter Operations to extract data from your images
* Neighbourhood Operations: convolutions and non-linear filters
* 2D FFT Operations to build special filters
* Graphic Operations to deal with lines and shapes

This kind of image processing is done typically in research 
environments: biology, microscopy, interferometry, material research. 
The program is also very well suited for educational purposes.

How do I build applications?
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TIMWIN has a powerful language built in. With the available tools and 
the language you can build image processing programs, that can tackle 
many image processing problems. The language also allows you to process 
the derived data. A compiler and debugger ensure productivity. 

How do I get images?
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A frame grabber is needed to grab video images and display results. 
Without a frame grabber you can read in binary images or TIFF images, and 
display images in a window.

What do I need?
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* A PC-AT running Windows 3.0 or 3.1 in standard or enhanced mode
* 2MB of memory
* 2.5 MB of free disk space
The following is recommended:
* An imaging Technology Inc. frame grabber
* A Super VGA or XVGA adapter with 800x600 pixels @ 256 colours
* A floating point coprocessor.

What is this demo version of TIMWIN?
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TIMWIN Demo is a limited version of the full package. Limitations are:
* it can only handle 256x256 images
* it cannot write images to disk
* you cannot create command file programs, because the compiler is 
disabled.

A set of compiled command files, forming a demonstration program, is 
enclosed. This demo gives you a good impression of TIMWIN's 
capabilities. You can access all commands in interactive mode.

Where can I get TIMWIN?
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Using anonymous ftp on: ftp.cica.indiana.edu, in pub/pc/win3/demo
Look for 'timwin.zip'. This file contains 2 self extracting archives:
timwin1.exe and timwin2.exe.
A separate document 'timwin.txt' supplies installation information.
Several mirror sites around the world keep copies of CICA.
Also our own site 'ph.tn.tudelft.nl' has the files (separate, not zipped 
together) in 'pub/upload'.

How do I get more information?
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1. Download the program or the document.
2. Mail ekkers@ph.tn.tudelft.nl


Robert J.Ekkers
University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
ekkers@ph.tn.tudelft.nl