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Re: scientific applications



Message: 1
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 23:08:15 -0600
From: Bryan Jones <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Apple lays of SciTech marketing manager
To: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden

......
Additionally, rather than simple marketing to science users and science
developers, I've long thought that Apple could really gain a lot of
focus in the science market by identifying a couple of applications
that are crucial to a number of areas in science and using open source
code already out there to improve upon them with an OS X only solution
that would make the Mac (particularly an OS X Mac) a necessity.  My
bias is bioscience, but I am thinking of an application something like,
say, ImageJ that a whole bunch of disciplines use.  In fact, scientific
imaging is a potential strong point for Apple as they have a long
history in imaging and massive outlays in R&D in imaging as well as a
number of technologies that could be leveraged.

....

If you want an OS X version of ImageJ (which runs very nicely in OS X itself, due to its Java nature), you need look no further than http://www.ImageSXM.org.uk
You will find a version of NIH Image, from which Image J is also derived, optimised for scanning probe microscopy applications. The current version works very well in Classic, and there is a carbonised version which works most of the time, but is still buggy, but improving. A little bit of help with the carbonisation process would probably work wonders.
I use it all the time to process images, and on the basis of this one program brought a flat-panel iMac into a PC lab recently.
Apple should definitely plug it on their applications page.


Yours,

James
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