Have a look at http://intelcom.ch/maxime/picfx/



[New since 1.1:
* Animations :-)...
  You do them making your projects depend on an extra parameter,
    and picFX renders them for all values of some range, and then
    saves the resulting pictures
* Expressions in filenames, useful for dynamical loading in animations
* Some confirmation requesters added
* Menus added
* Pretty "About" window ;-)
* A few shortcuts (R,G,B; menus)
* Some bugs removed and some other minor improvements
]

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This program lets you mix, deform or create picutes using functions.
You can open as many windows as you want, each one can be either an
image or a function.

The program calculates your r(x,y) g(x,y) and b(x,y) functions and
writes a pixel of these red/green/blue components. You can refer to
other projects in a formula:
r(2,x,y) = 255-r(1,x,y)
g(2,x,y) = 255-g(1,x,y)
b(2,x,y) = 255-b(1,x,y)
would output a negative version of project number one.

r(3,x,y) = (r(1,x,y)+r(2,x,y))/2
g(3,x,y) = (g(1,x,y)+g(2,x,y))/2
b(3,x,y) = (b(1,x,y)+b(2,x,y))/2
would mix projects one and two into project three.

r(1,x,y) = x
g(1,x,y) = y
b(1,x,y) = 255-(x+y)/2
would produce a nice spread..

This program is completely multi-tasking! Every time a rendering is
started, a new task is created and its priority is a little lower
than the main task, so the main program isn't slowed down when
projects are rendering!

Amazingly fast rendering :-))

There is a friendly and intuitive user interface using MUI.

You have wide control over running projects: you can pause or change
the sub-task priority while it is running directely from the
user-interface. You can also hide windows to avoid cluttering the
screen. Then you won't even remark that the computer is hard working
on those projects :-)

Locale support; available languages (the guide is English-only):
- Deutsch
- English
- Français
[Any translator is welcome! Please send me your translations!]

Although this program is postcardware, it has no restriction. You can
unpack and use it without limitation now!

Written in AmigaE, full source-code is included (MUI custom classes
with custom methods and attributes, Exec lists, tasks and ports,
dynamic assembly code generation, iff file creation/parsing... are used).

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[generic]                 2057    4254  48.4% -lh5- e05b May 27  2000 catalogs/français/picFX.catalog
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[generic]                33843  119752  28.3% -lh5- facf Jun  2  2000 picfx
[generic]                17216   42806  40.2% -lh5- cfc9 Jun  2  2000 picFX.guide
[generic]                 1063    1676  63.4% -lh5- 6e10 Apr 13  1999 picFX.guide.info
[generic]                  898    1674  53.6% -lh5- 4e82 Apr 13  1999 picFX.info
[generic]                 1331    2524  52.7% -lh5- 906e Jun  2  2000 picFX.readme
[generic]                15044   15139  99.4% -lh5- 25d9 Apr 23  2000 picFXlogo
[generic]                 1216    1904  63.9% -lh5- c492 Apr 13  1999 Translation.info
[generic]                 1623    3650  44.5% -lh5- 8a92 Jan  1  2000 translation/deutsch.ct
[generic]                 2683    5762  46.6% -lh5- 1e80 May 27  2000 translation/français.ct
[generic]                 2433    6031  40.3% -lh5- 7ae8 May 27  2000 translation/picFX.cd
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