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In article <1992Nov6.224446.3687@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
> John McNeil writes
> > I too moved from a mac to a NeXT and missed the Spyglass
> > apps.
> > 
> > I have ported the NCSA HDF libraries (no big deal) to the
> > NeXT and written an image viewing program.  It is not the
> > full suite of spyglass stuff, but it will show raw byte,
> > raw float, HDF ris8 and HDF sds 2d files.  It will also scale
> > the image, show the pixel coordinates and value that you
> > are pointing at, and give a histogram from which you can
> > re-scale the image.  It will open tiff files, but the
> > histogram stuff needs to be debugged here.  It will save
> > tiffs as ris8 and vice-versa.
> > 
> > If there is some interest, I can probably release it to the
> > public domain,
> > 
> > Let me know,
> You wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  Different meaning for contour.
> When I said contour plots, I meant contour as in topographic map,  
> weather isobar, etc.  
> 
> However, it would be really neat if the full spyglass stuff were  
> available for the Next.
> --
> => Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 
> => University of Alberta         Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=         
> => tel:403 492-3713                             fax: 403 492-4256 <=  
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We use coXist on our color Next to access Spyglass on a remote Sun. The  
only module of Spyglass available for the Sun at present is a buggy  
version of Transform.

Meanwhile I called Spyglass and asked them about porting to the Next. They  
said they were thinking about it. Pressure from the Next community on them  
would help speed this cogitating up I think.

BTW they DID say they might do a quick port to the Next for Nexts running  
coXist. They told me they didn't know the Next had an X-windows  
development environment until I told them about it (they can do ports to  
Unix X-machines in 1 month).

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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu