General Information
The following is a list of software packages used to view certain CD-ROMs. Some are
contained on the CD-ROM, while others you will need to order or get from our FTP site.
If you plan on getting the software via ftp, please be sure to use the back button to get
back into the CD-ROM Catalog Order Form. If you do not, you will lose all the order
information you have entered so far.
Image4PDS (MacIntosh) and ImageNoFPU (Power Mac)
This is a modified version of the National Institutes of Health software called
Image. Full operation Image4PDS requires a Mac II (x, cx, ci) with at least 2 Mb
of memory, but 4 Mb or more is recommended for doing animation, for
simultaneously displaying more than a handful of pictures, or for running under
MultiFinder. Image4PDS also requires an 8-bit video card capable of displaying
256 colors or shades of gray. Image4PDS directly supports or is compatible
with large monitors, flatbed scanners, film recorders, graphics tables, PostScript
laser printers, phototypesetters, and color printers. Software features include
standard file and edit menu; area, length, and point measurements; plots and
histograms; palette selections; flip, rotate, and scale functions; image filtering
and enhancements; 3D plot, video capture, movie, and animate functions; as
well as many others. Please also note that you will need a Floating Point Unit
(FPU) in order to use Image4PDS. Users without a floating-point coprocessor, or
users with PowerMacs, should use the Non-FPU version of Image: ImageNoFPU.
The following have Image on the CD-ROMs:
Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM)(later CDs)
The following will use Image4PDS and ImageNoFPU, but do not have them on their CD-ROMs:
ROSAT, Galileo, International Halley Watch, Magellan FMAPs, Magellan GxDRs, Magellan MIDRs,
Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM), Pre-Magellan, Viking Images, Voyager.
Browser
Most scientific data formats are supported: FITS, HDF, PDS, SAFF, TEXT, VICAR,
and others. Most conventional data types, images, tables, text, binary, and
compressed types are also supported. Support is included for CompuServe GIF
format, TIFF, PICT, Microsoft Windows BMP files, etc. Compressed data files
using Huffman, Huffman first difference, run length encoded, previous pixel, or
Limpel-Ziv-Welsh are processed correctly.
The following will use Browser, but do not have them on their CD-ROMs:
Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Einstein Observatory IPC X-ray data,
International Halley Watch, IRAS Sky Survey Atlas, Galileo, Pre-Magellan,
Magellan MIDR, Magellan ARCDR, Magellan GxDR, Voyager, Viking Images
If you are going to ftp the software, be sure to use your back button on your browser
to return to the CD-ROM Catalog. If you do not, you will lose all the ordering information
you have entered to date
Note: If getting Image4PDS or Image NoFPU, also get macdecomp to decompress the
images. (Available in the same directory)
Catalog content & ordering questions contact:
Request Coordination Office
Programmer/Curator: Kelly Gygax
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