Re: uesr-friendly plugin programming shell?

["Werner D. Streidt" <wstreidt@ngi.de>]

Ciao, Orio,

>I wanted to ask you: is anyone working (or thinking about) a
"user-friendly"
>interface for programming filters? I mean, something that lets people like
>me program their own filters only by tweaking virtual knobs and sliders,
>without having to actually learn code?


Well, I think it is a bit difficult to do that for creative filter programs.
I haven't checked it yet, but there is a digital image synthesizer called Ad
Oculos, used by the guys who use digital image synthesis with optical
material recognition. It's a german product and from what I've seen, it
really works like you described it. It looks like you can pull some code
blocks which do something (such as median filter, LaPlace, transform
functions) and you can combine them ( I believe there are some loops, too).

I think they are in the web, as well, look for "Ad Oculos", but it costs
some 450 US$  and does not fulfill our creativity dreams...

The URL I found are:
http://www.briansbooks.com/catalog/books/1850321310

http://www.dbs-imaging.com/new_web/english/image_processing/catalogue/softwa
re/adoculos.htm

Greetings from Germany,

Wern