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Re: Zuiko quality (was RE: [APML] Filter Size query)

Hi Ray,

> There now appear to be "hybrid" types of package emerging, which combine 
> the better aspects of Photoshop (user friendliness) with the more 
> rigorous, purpose-written image processing aspects of the scientific 
> software. Although I haven't tried it, it seems that PixInsight 
> (frequently used in posts here) falls into this category. This might be 
> worth checking out...if there's a MAC version?

Thanks for focusing on this. You have described our intention with meridian 
precision.

We are building PixInsight (the current LE version is just a sketch) as an 
open and modular system. Users will be able to define their own image 
processing procedures and associated interfaces through a dedicated API 
written in the ANSI C++ language. The PixInsight application will be a rich 
graphical interface to images and processes, but it will do no actual work 
by itself: processes will be defined as installable modules.

The whole API will be freely available (C++ source code, examples, 
documentation and binaries). The PixInsight application bundled with a 
default set of processing modules will be commercial, but it will be cheap 
anyway :-)

We are building the whole interface with Qt, a well-known cross-platform GUI 
development tool:

http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/

which means that our intention is to make PixInsight available on Windows, 
Linux and Mac OS X platforms. However the initial release will be for 
Windows; depending on its success we'll consider porting the application to 
Linux/Mac (Qt licenses are expensive, and the porting work isn't the easiest 
task for such a complex application).

Regards,

Juan
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Juan Conejero, Pleiades Astrophoto Team
PixInsight Home Page: http://pleiades-astrophoto.com/pixinsight/
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