 Release
of V4.01 beta TNT products
September 1992
Table of Contents
Release
Notes Index
28 September 1992
Release of TNT-MIPS V4.01ß
Introduction
TNT-MIPS V4.01ß is being shipped to you
for your possible experimentation on either 3.5" or 5.25" high density
disks according to the preference expressed on your MIPS registration
forms. The floppy disks which make up TNT-MIPS V4.01ß contain a common
set of routines which are distributed to all current subscribers to MIPS
V3.30. Installation of TNT-MIPS will not alter your current
MIPS V3.30 in any way. It will create a complete new TNT-MIPS
structure on your drive and subsequently recreate or update it with future
releases.
This release of V4.01ß is neither
complete nor reliable. The attached schedule indicates the status of each
process. The principal purpose of providing it at this time is to provide an
overview of how TNT-MIPS will operate on all computer platforms supported
and the progress toward its completion It will also get all of you either
planning or experimenting with Microsoft Windows V3.1 and the possible
hardware changes you may need to make to accommodate it and TNT-MIPS in
turn.
A maintenance upgrade to MIPS V3.30
designated V3.31 has also been included. It will install revised,
corrected versions of some of the processes in V3.30. At this time it is
not anticipated that a MIPS V3.40 will ever be released. Those who
have subscribed to MIPS V3.4 will receive TNT-MIPS V4.1, your
V3.5 goes to V4.2, and so on.
Shipment for Other Platforms
Similar versions of TNT-MIPS V4.01ß are
also being shipped to several ckients who have ordered it for workstations.
Development stations for all 6 popular workstations are now part of the
MicroImages' compiling network. These include Sun, IBM, DEC, HP, Data General,
and Silicon Graphics as well as UNIX based Macintosh and PCs equipped with the
latest versions of ESIX and SCO. No particular difficulties are being
encountered in compiling TNT-MIPS V4.01ß processes for these platforms
under their brands of UNIX using their 32-bit C compilers.
Installation
Running INSTALL upgrades your key to
authorize it for V4.01ß. It then decompresses and writes a copy of each
licensed process from the disks containing V4.01ß into selected directory
on your hard drive. You must use the INSTALL routine on the installation
disk supplied with this release to decompress the files during installation.
Installing this V4.01ß will completely replace the earlier
V4.00ß if the same hard drive is selected.
The TNT-MIPS INSTALL program
works just as it does with MIPS V3.30 but will not alter V3.30 or
V3.31 in any way. For example, it will check your hard drive to determine
that space is available for the installation you are making.
V4.02 may be in your possession by the
time many of you have worked through installing MS W V3.1 and trying this
V4.01ß. Remember, MS W V3.1 uses DOS V5.0 and its addition
to your system at this time will in no way will impair your continued use of
MIPS V3.31 or other DOS based software. Thus, assuming you have
sufficient hard drive space available, you can set up and test MS W V3.1,
install TNT-MIPS V4.01ß, and then delete the directory containing
TNT-MIPS if you are short on drive space. This would leave MS W V3.1
installed for your use with TNT-MIPS V4.02.
It is our suggestion that you first choose menu
selection "T" (Install Minimal Test Version) offered by the
INSTALL program. This approach will use about 5 megabytes of drive space. It
will install only the new display program and its associated support elements
including the appropriate menu and the process to convert RVF project
files into RVC project files. This comprehensive new display process is
explained in detail in the enclosed documentation and is the heart of
TNT-MIPS. It still lacks some important features such as a line style and
point style editor but the pattern style editor is available to illustrate how
these options will eventually work. However, it will use line and point styles
imported with your objects from RVF project files.
When you experiment with this new display
process you will find that it is a much more comprehensive activity than in
MIPS V3.31. It should be apparent that since the severe memory constraints
of MIPS are being lifted by MS W V3.1, our new processes will be
considerably larger. Correspondingly, however, there will be fewer processes
involved as formerly independent processes are consolidated into fewer, more
comprehensive procedures.
After you have familiarized yourself with the
display process, you may subsequently choose menu selection "M"
(Install TNT-MIPS Version 4.01 Beta) on the INSTALL program to
complete the loading of all the other available processes. TNT-MIPS V4.01ß
will require 41 megabytes of your hard drive. Eventually this hard drive
requirement will shrink as processes are streamlined and integrated together.
The 5.25" version has 19 disks as follows: 18
containing processes and 1 with the installation and MI wrapper.
The 3.5" version has 16 disks as follows: 15
containing processes and 1 with the installation and MI wrapper.
Exclusive International
Representatives
MIPS is curretnly in operation in 37
nations. Our Technical Support Staff is now in frequent contact via phone and
FAX with our clients around the world. Continued expansion of interest in
TNT-MIPS outside the United States has resulted in the addition of three new
Exclusive International Representatives during the last 6 weeks. These new
Representatives with ongoing TNT-MIPS projects and new pending clients
are as follows.
India will be serviced for MicroImages
products by the GIS Division of Kirloskar Oil Engines, Ltd.; Laxmanroa Kirloskar
Road; Khadki; Pune 411 003; INDIA; (912)123-22341 and FAX (912)123-23208.
Kirloskar Oil Engines is a large, widely diversified corporation with offices
throughout India. Their GIS Division is brand new and is managed by Parth Amine.
Their initial service projects involve scanning and conversion of large
numbers of maps for use in TNT-MIPS by various Government Agencies.
The GIS Division is also planning to establish representation in the United
States through which it will contract "off-shore" X-Y digitizing, scanning,
rasher-to-vector conversion, and other related services completed in India.
Anyone interested in such services with the results delivered in TNT-MIPS
or other system formats should consider discussing their needs with Parth Amin.
Other MicroImages' Representatives and Resellers may also wish to consider
Kirloskar as a subcontractor for the economical and rapid completion of their
large scale drawing and map conversion projects.
N.E. Australia State of Queensland will
now be serviced for MicroImages products by Technical Solutions (TS),
Unit 6/21 Station Road; Indooroopilly; Brisbane; Queensland; voice (617)378-8702
and FAX (617)378-7922. Ian Cameron is the principal to contact at TS.
Other products available from TS are KEAYS software for civil engineering
and surveying applications; GS-MAP from GS Corporation; and ADAM Technology
analytical photogrammetric mapping systems. TS also provides custom
software and data preparation services. We welcome the help that Ian and his
associates at TS will provide to MicroImages and our future and new
clients in Queensland.
Malaysia will be serviced for
MicroImages products by Rimman International, Sdn Bhd; No. 12, Loroong 51A/227C;
46100 Petaling Jaya; Selangor Darul Ehsan; MALAYSIA; voice (603)755-7007 and FAX
(603)757-2984. Alfred Yeap is the principal to contact at Rimman. Other products
available from Rimman are MapInfo, AutoCad, and related products. Rimman also
provides data conversion, software development, system integration, and project
design. We welcome the help that Alfred and his associates at Rimman will
provide to MicroImages and our future clients in Malaysia as well as in
Singapore and Brunei.
Domestic Resellers
KORK Systems of Bangor, Maine becomes
the newest domestic reseller of MicroImages products. KORK Systems is known
world-wide for its installations of advanced computer mapping products and
systems. Their most recent success is a nearly completed $3.5 million project
installing 40 KORK mapping and ESRI Arc/Info systems for modernizing the
Egyptian mapping agency. These systems are principally used for a detailed
re-mapping (to 1/7200 scale) of the Nile River Valley which in turn is used to
plan extension into the desert of the Aswan Dam irrigation system. Terrence
Keating, President and his profession staff of photogrammetrists and software
engineers are located at 81 park Street; Bangor; Maine; (207)945-6353; and FAX
(207)942-9815.
KORK and MicroImages will collaborate closely
to integrate soft photogrammetric products across all platforms supported by
TNT-MIPS. KORK Systems customers will find TNT-MIPS useful to extend
the results of their mapping operations into finished maps and spatial data
management systems such as HyperIndexe stacks. Correspondingly, MicroImages will
be working to interface TNT-MIPS processes with KORK's mapping products
to make their quantitative mapping results more easily used with TNT-MIPS
across all platforms.
MicroImages' clients, Domestic Resellers, and
International Representatives are encouraged to examine the excellent mapping
products currently available from KORK Systems for possible use in their
projects, services, and markets. Material on KORK's products of will be supplied
in a future MicroImages mailing. All MicroImages clients will also be kept
informed of the results of the planned software collaborations between
MicroImages and KORK Systems.
Advanced User Workshop 5 (AUW5)
The Fifth Advanced User Workshop (AUW5)
will be held in Lincoln as usual on the bitter cold days of 12, 13, and 14
January 1993. At your request, this year January 15 (a Friday) will be scheduled
as an additional "open day" for the workshop so you can all visit with your
favorite programmer and technical support specialist. This year the fee for the
3 day formal workshop will increase to $400 and the open day will be provided
without charge. AUW5 will find us all in the thick of using TNT-MIPS
and planning the exciting new, advanced capabilities it will allow. Please make
plans early for these dates if you are outside the U.S. and/or with a government
agency requiring long range planning.
One new topic area for AUW5 already
suggested by you will be the demonstration and comparison of performance
features of TNT-MIPS across a variety of platforms. MicroImages will
attempt to prepare and distribute performance information addressing this
question on some sort of normalized basis such as performance per dollar spent.
The "open" Friday session will provide an opportunity for a personal, close up,
comparative examination of these platforms and their performance.
TNT-MIPS Release Schedule
Shipping as V4.00ß
9 August development cut off date
19 August shipping date
General utility materials
MicroImages' wrapper to convert existing MIPS
8-bit display board drivers into Microsoft Windows V3.1 drivers.
MicroImages' 8-bit X server for Microsoft
Windows V3.1
Conversion of RVF project files to RVC
project files
Installation instructions for TNT-MIPS in
Microsoft Windows V3.1 and on workstations.
Printed draft manual section on use of
TNT-MIPS display and system processes
Object display and editing
Integrated composite display of raster,
vector, and CAD objects [the graphic windows for designing a line's style and
a symbol's style are not available. will display styles of existing lines and
points created and imported from RVF files. try the bit pattern editor which
is available to create fill patterns. see a list of other missing features
scheduled for V4.01ß below]
3D display of raster objects [create
and manipulate a wireframe for the raster but the raster can not be
subsequently draped or drawn on the wireframe]
Interactive editing of vector objects [will
not allow line to be drawn across an existing line so as to intersect it]
Mosaicking of raster objects [complete except
for trend removal, between frame color balancing, and abut method of seam
formation]
Object utilities
Raster import/export [available for selected
external formats]
Raster, vector, and CAD statistics
Copy raster utility
Database object import/export
Database object editor
Relational database object query operations
Object conversions
Raster to vector Conversion
Home range polygon finding
Surface fitting to swarms of data points
Viewshed computation from elevation object
Watershed properties from elevation object
Image and GIS processing
Fourier analysis of 2D images
Spatial filtering
Principal components on multispectral images
Multilinear regression on multispectral
images
Classification of multispectral images
(supervised and unsupervised)
Extract rectified DTM elevation models and
orthophoto/images from SPOT images and stereo airphotos using a relative model
[numerous advanced features included over MIPS V3.3]
Hardcopy Creation
Pen plotting
Raster printing [new color balance window is
designed and is show but does not yet function]
Additional features
shipping as V4.01ß
17 September development cut off date
29 September shipping date
General utility materials
MicroImages' wrapper to convert existing MIPS
16 and 24-bit display board drivers into Microsoft Windows V3.1 drivers.
Final printed copy of Application Note on
X-Y Digitizing
Final printed copy of Application Note on
Map and Poster Layout
Outline of Application Note on
Internationalization and Localization
On-line manual process [not manual but
process, without illustrations]
Object display and editing
Interactive editing of CAD objects [no X-Y
digitizer support, block manipulation, or smart line following]
Interactive editing of rasters [only existing
binary, grayscale, and 8-bit color rasters with simple drawing tools and undo]
Additional display processes
Measurements [except protractor and flood
fill boundary]
3D display of raster objects [wireframe
design and output only to a raster object and not directly to screen]
Interactive editing of CAD objects
[completed]
Object conversions
Raster import/export [available for
additional formats] Hollingsworth
Warping objects [only for raster objects]
CAD to vector object conversion
Vector to CAD object conversion
Georeferencing objects and changing object
projections [only for raster objects]
Image and GIS processing
Extract rectified DTM elevation models and
orthophoto/images from SPOT images and stereo airphotos using ground control
to provide an absolute orientation model.
Hardcopy Creation
Pen plotting [no style by class (key field)
or point symbols and scale can not be set, limited to solid color lines]
Raster printing [no bilinear interpolation
only nearest neighbor resampling]
Plotting into a raster
Map and poster layout [no grid, scale bars,
or text features]
Additional features
shipping as V4.02
23 October development cut off date
30 October shipping date
General utility materials
Conversion of RVC project files to RVF
project files
MicroImages' 16- and 24-bit X server for
Microsoft Windows V3.1
On-line manual process [not manual but
process, with illustrations]
Completed sections of on-line manual
Slide show process [integrated with on-line
manual]
Editor for creating outline fonts
Available sections of Application Note on
Internationalization and Localization
Available sections of Application Note on
Software Development Kit
Object display and editing
Additional display processes
Interactive Contrast Enhancement
Pin mapping
Histograms of raster objects
Profile raster objects
Object extents
Object display and editing
HyperIndex and HyperIndex Linker
Capturing of live video
Mosaicking of raster objects [add trend
removal, between frame color balancing, and abut method of seam formation]
Interactive editing of vector objects
Object utilities
Import/export of vector/CAD objects
Mosaicking of vector/CAD objects
Object utlities
Computing buffer zones for vector elements
Image and GIS processing
Progressive image transformation
Raster object creation
Import raster object from 8 mm and open reel
tape
Scanning
Image and GIS processing
Feature Mapping
Spatial Manipulation Language
Intersection of vector objects
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