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Fred Fish's Product-Info | 1994-04-05 | 1.8 KB | 60 lines |
- # This file contains product information that can be used by
- # KingFisher 2.0 and other similar tools.
-
- .name
- FastJPEG
- .aminet-dir
- gfx/show
- .type
- Picture Viewer
- .short
- JPEG viewer, both fast and good quality.
- .description
- FastJPEG is a fast JPEG picture viewer. Besides being fast, it has
- many other advantages. An important goal was to not trade quality for
- speed. In fact, FastJPEG is both fast and has an excellent quality.
- Most other JPEG viewers either produce ugly pictures, or need ages to
- perform the conversion to HAM mode.
-
- The key to the improved quality is a technique called `dithering',
- where colors not displayable on the Amiga are approximated by giving
- neighboring pixels similar colors, which the eye then mixes to the
- desired one.
-
- A common variety of this method is the `Floyd-Steinberg' error
- dispersion algorithm, which is very time intensive, but produces the
- best pictures.
-
- FastJPEG does not use this method, as it would drastically reduce
- performance. The dithering method used in FastJPEG, however, produces
- pictures of similar quality.
- .version
- 1.10
- .date
- 1994.2.26
- .author
- Christoph Feck
- .distribution
- Copyrighted but Freely Redistributable
- .address
- TowerSystems
- Balbierstrasse 6
- D-67663 Kaiserslautern
- Germany
- .email
- feck@informatik.uni-kl.de
- .docs
- FastJPEG.guide
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
- .submittal
- Downloaded via ftp from aminet (wuarchive.wustl.edu).
- .contents
- FastJPEG FastJPEG is a fast JPEG picture viewer. Besides being fast,
- it has many other advantages. An important goal was to not
- trade quality for speed. In fact, FastJPEG is both fast
- and has an excellent quality. Most other JPEG viewers
- either produce ugly pictures, or need ages to perform the
- conversion to HAM mode. Version 1.10, binary only.
- Author: Christoph Feck
-