Is IDL a software only for UNIX/SGI, and where does it come from?

At 09.16 1997-02-10 PST, Mark Cannell wrote:
>You can do all this and more with IDL but there is a learning curve to
>overcome. The effort will be more than justified by the results
>though...

On Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:17:02 -0500 Sam Wang wrote:
> From: Sam Wang <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:17:02 -0500
> Subject: Quantitative image analysis for Image-Pro
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>         Here at Duke we are gathering confocal movies of dendritic
Ca
> signals using
> our Noran Odyssey (w/SGI Indy front end).  We are looking for a good
way to
> crunch
> these into a pretty form for showing in public and have committed to
Image-Pro,
> which has a sophisticated scripting language.  What it does not have
is a
> library of
> pre-written macros.  This would save us much development time.
>
>         Does anyone know of such a library, of use to quantitative
imagers /
> fluorescence movie-makers?
>
> Useful functions would include:
>
> * frame averaging (running, jumping, and other)
> * manipulating a whole stack of images for background subtraction,
division
>         by baseline
> * superimposing pseudocolor on a grayscale reference image
> * following regions-of-interest through a stack of images.


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