Message-Id: <mailto:199503132301.RAA00746@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:23:23 -0500 From: mailto:ported@RPI.EDU> Subject: Re: looking for Non-Pixelation Zoom To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Tim Roark asks: >I saw in a catalog a few months back a program that lets you zoom in on
>an area of an image and get a actual zoom for the image not an enlargement
>of the pixels. It would take the image and use it logarithms to define
>the missing data. the price was around $100.00 Any help would be helpful.
>
> Tim Roark
Of course an "actual zoom" is not going to create more information than already existed. However the information might exist in forms other than a scanned bitmap.
You may be thinking of Live Picture, marketed in the USA by HSC Software (805)566-6699. It was selling at $3995, but I saw an announcement recently of a dramatic price decrease (to about $1000, as I recall). It uses fancy mathematics to represent content, rather than straightforward bitmaps -- and therefore it has the fractal-like zoom capability you mention (at least that's what's claimed -- I haven't actually seen it work). It's gotten rave reviews.
On the other hand, maybe what you saw was something totally different.
Don Porter ITS