FREE PRODUCTS
  TNTmips Free
  TNTatlas

  MI/X
  FAQ

From an experienced Australian client.

"We are also undertaking constancy work for this officeand using TNTmips for all the mapping work (in fact, all our mapshave a note at the bottom saying the map was produced using TNTmips).We are achieving far more from TNTmips that any other image processing/GISwe have previously used."

From an International Representative.

"This was a very successful 4 days of TNTmips trainingand response and feedback has been beyond my expectations. Thepositive aspect of the 4 days was that all of the 8 participantsprogressed from [having limited knowledge about] GIS to a stagewhere they were capable of, and had imported and georeferenceda variety of datasets including TM, MSS, aeromagnetics, gravity,exploration license CAD objects, AGSO (A. Geological Survey Organization)*.E00 vector and dbf database files, in-house fgeochem and others.So, at the end of the 4 days they had built up a GIS of theirareas of interest and were actively producing hardcopy of variousdisplays using Paintjet XL and 650C."

From an International Representative.

"[client name] seems happier with Version 4.8."

"I also spoke with [another client name] who alsoseemed very happy with 4.8."

From a new Australian client.

"I've been using TNTmips 12 hours a day for a weeknow. The more I use it the better I like it! It's a great system."

From an International Representative.

"Is it still the MicroImages custom for everyone to goto lunch once a week? If so, I would like to pay for lunch tosay 'thank you' for all the hard work done this year. Please chargethis to my account." [an especially tasty testimonial]

From an experienced U.S. client.

"Got your fix for disp2D (12/2/94) and got a chance totry out the new version of printrvc. Haven't had any complaintsabout disp2d, so it looks like it is working ok. Was impressedwith printrvc. Had a lot of resizing, contrast enhancement, andyes, even rotation. The rotation buttons actually work! The impressivething was that all through the layout process I didn't hang evenonce! Dithered my layouts over the networks. Even that didn'thang."

From an Australian Representative.

"May I take this opportunity to wish you and the staffof MicroImages the very best for 1995. The service support providedto [company name] by your team has been superior to anything wemight expect in Australia from a GIS software development company- service from [a competitor's name] is hopeless."

From a purchaser in Greece of TNTdemo 4.8 (not a currentclient).

[public question posted on Internet]

"I've heard that a new IDRISI for MS Windows 3.x platformwill be out in a couple of months. Are there any other GIS programsavailable for Windows that are comparable??"

"It would make more sense to me to develop a GIS programutilizing a 32-bit operating system like OS/2 or Windows 95, ifit is ever released."

"Comments??"

[public response from TNTdemo user]

"Try TNTmips from MicroImages, Lincoln, NE (402)477-9554CAD, raster GIS, vector GIS, database and programming environment.30-day full featured demo license available. Win 3.1, NT, UNIX-Xplatforms. Seeing is believing!"

From an ERDAS user in Fresno, CA.

[public question posted on Internet]

"We are using ERDAS Imagine to load a 3-band, 6000 pixelby 6000 pixel image of Thailand. It took almost 30 minutes ona SPARC 10 running Solaris 1.x. Has anyone experienced such anunacceptable wait?"

[public response posted by MicroImages]

"It is assumed that by "load" you mean to readthe 3 bands of the 6000 by 6000 pixel Landsat image from a harddrive and display the sampled image fitting on the screen in color."

"The current TNTmips 4.8 (the Map and Image ProcessingSystem) from MicroImages would require approximately slightlymore than 6 minutes to display same image from a hard drive ona Pentium based PC. It would require perhaps 1/2 that timeon a SPARC 10 depending on other activity on the system."

"With the advanced image storage methods already implementedin TNTmips 5.0 which will be shipped in March, thesimilar display of any 3-band raster of this size or even largerwill take less than 15 seconds on the Pentium. This time includesthe time to change the rotation angle and resample to any fractionalscale."

"An even more demanding display test is how long it takesTNTmips to display from a 22,000 by 22,000 pixel RussianPriroda monochrome single-band image. With TNTmips 4.8displaying a 1:1 (i.e. full resolution) grayscale image wouldrequire no longer than 10 seconds. With the new features alreadyadded for release in TNTmips 5.0 the sampled display ofthe entire image or any subportion including rotation andany fractional zoom factor will always take less than 15 secondson a Pentium. Of course all of these times would be less whenusing TNTmips on a SPARC 10, a DEC Alpha, or someother faster workstation. Should you wish to see these fast displaysin person you will find that your University currently has about15 TNTmips systems in operation. Please contact Dr. JackParis in the GeoInformation Technology Center for a demonstrationto substantiate the times provided."

"posted by technical support at MicroImages, Inc., 201N. 8th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508; voice (402)477-9554; FAX (402)477-9559;email info@microimages.com."

Technical References

Selecting a color display board for MSW3.11, MSNT3.1, andUNIX.

True-Color Graphics Accelerators. An in-depth inspectionof 35 PCI and five Macintosh NuBus cards for ultrafastgraphics and deep colors. by Jim Kane, Siva Kumar, and John McDonough.February 1995. in Byte Magazine, 20(1):136-152. (This article'stop rating for use on the PCI bus was given to ATI ProTurbo board [retails $700 with 4 mb VRAM] and the MatroxImpression Plus [retails $500 with 4 mb VRAM].)

TIN references.

Modeling for Sedimentary Surface Basin Simulation. by JohnC. Tipper. in Computer Modeling of Geological Surfaces and Volumes:pages 93 to 101. 1992. edited by David E. Hamilton and ThomasA. Jones. available from American Associates of Petroleum Geologists,Tulsa, OK. (A good, short summary of the TIN approach.)

Mapping Anisotropy in Computer Mapping of Geologic Data.by Gregory Kushnir and Jeffrey M. Yarus. in Computer Modelingof Geological Surfaces and Volumes: pages 75 to 91. 1992. editedby David E. Hamilton and Thomas A. Jones. available from AmericanAssociates of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK.

Computer Modeling of Geological Surfaces and Volumes. 1992.edited by David E. Hamilton and Thomas A. Jones. available fromAmerican Associates of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK. (Thiswhole book is quite well done.)

Papers referencing work using MicroImages Products.

Urban Terrain Zone Based GIS for MOUT (MilitaryApplication of a Geographic Information System). by RichardEllefsen and Jack Liu. 1994. in Proceedings of GIS/LIS '94: AnnualConference and Exposition. pp. 254 to 262. (available from Am.Soc. for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, URISA, Am. Assoc.of Geogr., AM/FM Intern., or Am. Cong. on Surv. and Mapping).