Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear Angus, > > You do not need to vote for inclusion of software on the list, because > it is a wiki :)
Understood. I was hoping for some agreement that they were not too general to be suitable for inclusion, before trying the wiki. > Did you write front-ends in your laboratory? Easy to use > frontends are what I think are missing in the field of fluorescence > microscopy. In my previous lab, we had a nice set of Tk intefaces for > easy merging or separation of RGB channels, but unfortunately it was > never released. No, we don't generally write front-ends - we tend to be too pushed for time to do anything beyond getting the algorithms working in code, and rely on command-line interface to work them. Closely related though, perldl works very nicely with the visualisation suite karma (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/karma/) by Richard Gooch, which is not packaged for debian, as far as I'm aware, but is easily installable by rsync. I'm very slowly developing something like that for numpy/scipy using wxPython, but it's nowhere near ready for sharing with the world yet. > I am currently considering to write a simple web interface to > imagemagick, but I am suspecting that this is not the most > ressource-efficient, nor the most portable accross Win / Mac / Unix. > Actually, I already started, but if you have some programs to share, > I'll be happy to stop and do something else. Imagemagick certainly has a great set of tools, but I'm not convinced that a web interface is the way to go either. Perhaps using the python or perl programming interfaces, and a cross-platform GUI toolkit (like wx) would be a good way to go. Ideally, this would also make it possible to pull the images into the respective data language (perldl or numpy) for more in-depth analysis if necessary, getting the best of both worlds. How does that credo go: make the commonplace tasks simple and the difficult ones possible? A. -- Angus McMorland email [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile +64-21-155-4906 PhD Student, Neurophysiology / Multiphoton & Confocal Imaging Physiology, University of Auckland phone +64-9-3737-599 x89707 Armourer, Auckland University Fencing Secretary, Fencing North Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
