RE: FF Book in german

["MacBeth, Bill" <bill.macbeth@compaq.com>]

Werner,
Yes, there is not much going on here.  In fact, I wondered for a long time
if I had been inadvertently deleted from the group.  One possible
explanation is another new program that is VERY active, called Ultra
Fractal.    I suspect a lot of image-oriented people are using/programming
that one (including me).  Its capabilities go well beyond any prior fractal
generation engine.

It seems to me that most of the postings to this group are what I would call
"pattern generation."  My use of FiFo (and previously FF) is for photo
retouching, so most operations are of interest only at the pixel level,
usually within a selection mask.  So - maybe I am the disconnect.  Yes, some
of my routines are used within Actions.  I have been trying unsuccessfully
for several years to determine the algorithm that Adobe uses for the
Despeckle command.  I would like to put a wrapper around it to do some other
things, but right now they are limited by the best imitation that I can do
of Despeckle.

Speaking of FiFo, I do not know of any discussion group for it.  I sent
several pages of comments to Guenther Schuster in December.  He said he
would get back after the first of the year, but I have yet to hear from him
or see a new rev posted on his web site.  The link to his Revision History
page seems broken because I have not been able to access it for a month or
more.

Well, thank you for a posting so that we know you are still interested.

Regards, Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Werner D. Streidt [SMTP:wstreidt@bigfoot.de]
> Sent:	Friday, February 26, 1999 6:31 AM
> To:	FFDG
> Subject:	FF Book in german
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday, a guy called Guenter Schuler called me and said he was about to
> publish a book about FF in the next few months! I never heard of him , nor
> have I read any e-mails by him. He is a Mac guy and created the filter
> collection "Creative Filters" (with FF) sold for 79, -DM.
> 
> I checked with "who ff" to see if I could check his mail, but apparently
> he
> hasn't been even lurking here ;-)  He was very surprised I mentioned FiFo
> and FM. Ever since FiFo came out, FF became out-of-date...
> 
> Well, he said he wanted to mention my FFPG (at least, he read that :-)),
> but
> does not seem to know the gurus here. Let's see what he will come up with
> -
> of course, he is very demotivated that there won't be any Mac-FiFO or
> Mac-FM
> (at least not planned till now).
> 
> Just to keep you up-to-date.
> 
> ---
> 
> BTW, "who ff":
> 
> We are talking about 165 persons in this mailing list (Hi, USA, France,
> Italy, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Japan, Brazil
> and other earthlings) why are only about ten the active ones? Even now
> with
> FiFo out there, I am surprised there is no activity like at FF-times here.
> Come on, guys and gals, post some questions or post some codes. This is a
> help line, not a delivery line. I have seen only one guy posting about
> FiFo
> recently. Come on, let's see some more!!! ;-)
> 
> Or is there a FiFo Mailing List I don't know of?
> 
> If traffic slows down, we ought to close down this list! (I hope this
> psychology thing works ;-))))
> 
> Shall we do some "problem-solving" (like: create the Smiley with
> Photoshop-FF) ?
> 
> Has anyone created a combination of using FF filters with actions?
> Although
> the windows of the F-filters will always pop-up, there are possibly
> interesting combinations with FF and Photoshop.
> 
> Maybe we should do a survey here, who is using Mac/PC, Photoshop/PSP or
> other programs, etc...
> 
> Well, some ideas here...
> 
> Wernman
> http://privat.schlund.de/filter-factory
> 
>