User interface
- Menu: The complete software can be controlled by particular menu items.
- Original picture: Here you can see the original picture that is to be generated by the mosaic (scaling possible – see domain 6. ZOOM)
- Mosaic picture: This is a preview of the generated mosaic picture (scaling possible – see domain 6. ZOOM)
- Options: The complete software control can be achieved by the options at the right side of the window. They change automatically depending on the program status. All basic options can also be operated by the menu.
- Statusrow: Each software status is described in this row. In addition the user can find information to start further steps.
- Zoom: Here two sliders can be found to scale the two pictures (original picture and mosaic picture).
Sequential program flow
Basically generating mosaics is proceeded sequentially:
- load original picture
- load configuration, derivate or generate
- define mosaic dimensions
- define cutout of original picture
- choose quantisation method (with possibly further options)
- choose tiling methods (with posssibly further options)
- activate/deactivate options as 3D effects or statistic output
- generate mosaic (can be repeated user-defined with different methods)
- generate output documents
General information
- If the software is used by a Mac system (by an Apple Virtual Machine), the bicubic scaling will be slightly different from the Java Virtual Machine of Sun. With a bicubic scaling the Apple VM works with a different Gauß function. The consequence is a slight difference between the mosaics generated by Apple VM and generated by Sun VM. Apart from a slightly worse performance of the Apple VM other functions of the software are not concerned.
Using the virtual machine of IBM you will not have any restriction. Nevertheless we recommend using the original VM of Sun.
- For loading picture files the Java package javax.imageio is used. So loading JPG, GIF and PNG is possible. Laoding PNGs is only possible if they have a color depth of 8 bit. PNG files of a bitdepth of 24 cannot be supported by the above –mentioned Java package at present. The Java package will be permanently developed so that PNGs with a depth of 24 bit as well as data types like BMP,PNM and TIFF are expected to follow in the near future.
- Loading picture files of type GIF with alphachannel implicates that the transparent colour is automatically converted into black.
Last modified on 2009/11/29 - Copyright 2006-2018 - Tobias Reichling, Adrian Schütz
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