RFS: imview

[Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@pcu.helsinki.fi>]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a sponsor to Imview, a GPL'd application designed to display
and analyze scientific images with large dynamic range or multispectral
content.

Currently the Debian offerings in this area are pretty weak (AFAIK). The
archive contains lots of programs to display and manipulate ordinary low
dynamic range images (photographs), but people who want to view and analyze
scientific images with more than 8-bit dynamics are left with cinepaint,
which is more geared to film production, or the old and ugly astronomy
oriented packages (saoimage, iraf).

Imview on the other hand is based on a modern X11 toolkit (fltk),
maintained upstream, and supports a huge amount of image formats (through
Imagemagick) and image types (integer and floating point, multispectral etc.)

The imview and imview-doc packages I've made can be found from
mentors.debian.net repository

deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free

The upstream URL is http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Hugues.Talbot/imview/

Here's the package description:

Package: imview
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: science
Installed-Size: 1076
Maintainer: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@pcu.helsinki.fi>
Version: 1.1.2-1
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libfltk1.1c102 (>= 1.1.4), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.2-1), libjpeg62, liblcms1 (>= 1.08-1), libmagick5.5.7, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.5.0-4), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.2-1), libtiff3g, libwmf0.2-7 (>= 0.2.8), libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxml2 (>= 2.6.3), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Suggests: imview-doc
Description: Image viewing and analysis application
 Imview is an image viewing and an image analysis application which
 .
  * Displays a large number of image formats.
  * Displays 2D or 3D (as slices) images with a very good zoom and pan
    feature.
  * Works with multi-spectral, time series or multi-page documents (e.g.:
    Satellite images, TIFF stacks, animated GIFs and heterogeneous
    multi-component files).
  * Displays all pixel types (1-bit to 64-bit data, integer or floating
    point).
  * Arbitrary 1-D profile of 2-D images (or of 2-D slices of 3-D images) can
    be displayed.
  * Has support for arbitrary colourmaps for all pixel types (i.e.: false
    colour display).
  * Has standard image manipulation facilities (brightness/contrast, gamma,
    zoom, crop, rotation, etc).
  * Can be controlled remotely via sockets and text commands (for easy
    integration into various image analysis systems).
  * Images can be uploaded into Imview via sockets or shared memory.
  * And much more!
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  Homepage: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Hugues.Talbot/imview/


Best wishes,

Teemu Ikonen