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For your convenience, the document you are reading, the Image Visualization Library Implementation Guide, exists in two forms: a web-browsable version and a paper version. The web-browsable version exists on the World-Wide Web at Access HP (URL=http://www.hp.com), as well as on your local file system in the directory /opt/graphics/IVL/doc/Web, which can be accessed from your web browser even without an Internet connection. The paper version contains the same information as the web version.

This document contains the following information:

Chapter 0 -- Preface: About this Documentation Contains information about the audience, formatting conventions, and contents of the IVL documentation. It also contains pointers to other sources for imaging information, directions for printing the IVL documentation, and information about recommended Web browsers.
Chapter 1 -- For System Administrators Contains system administration tasks and information for the IVL product. This includes installation and configuration information, as well as information on compatible software revisions of IVL, HP-UX, and X11.
Chapter 2 -- Overview of the Image Visualization Library (IVL) Contains a high-level overview and definition of the IVL API, with diagrams to describe hardware and software architecture.
Chapter 3 -- For Application Developers Contains information you will need to develop IVL applications. This includes naming conventions, linking and compiling, supported data formats, tuning tips, and troubleshooting information.
Chapter 4 -- Interaction with the X Window System Contains X-specific information you will need to develop an IVL application.
Chapter 5 -- IVL Implementation and Device-Specific Information Contains device-specific information for the graphics devices supported by IVL.
Appendix A -- IVL Quick Reference Contains names and parameter lists of the IVL routines.
Appendix B -- IVL Reference Contains complete reference pages for each the IVL routine.
Glossary Contains a list of IVL-related terms and their definitions.

Audience and Scope

This manual is designed to teach imaging application developers about the Image Visualization Library (IVL). This manual is not designed to teach you to become an application developer, or to teach you about imaging terminology and concepts. To use IVL, you will need knowledge of the following:

Using HP-UX.
C programming, linking, and compiling.
X11 and Motif programming.
Digital image processing terms and concepts.

Formatting Conventions

The IVL documentation uses the following formatting conventions:

Typewriter text represents computer literals. This text should be typed in exactly as it appears.
Italic text represents variable names. You should substitute your own text in place of the italics.
Bold text represents glossary terms. See the Glossary for definitions.
〈Angle-bracketed italics〉 represents conceptual variables. These are not literals, but should be replaced by whatever value is appropriate for the context. For example, the following line:
cc 〈filename〉 .c -lIVL -lm -o 〈filename〉
means you should type the above line exactly, replacing the two occurrences of 〈filename〉 with the name of an IVL program.

For More Information

Hewlett-Packard does not attempt to discuss in detail the concepts and theory of digital image processing in this manual. For further information on digital image processing, the following references may be helpful. Note that these are suggestions, a starting point for further reading, not a specific endorsement of these books over others not listed here.

Image Visualization Library Reference -- a reference section in this document that provides descriptions of IVL API routines, their use, and parameters.
Graphics Administration Guide -- an HP document that provides device support, pathname, and other information that is applicable to all of Hewlett-Packard's graphics APIs.
Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition) by Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley; 1992). ISBN: 0-201-50803-6.
Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition) by William K. Pratt (New York: John Wiley and Sons; 1991). ISBN: 0-471-85766-1.
Digital Image Warping by George Wolberg (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press; 1990). ISBN: 0-8186-8944-7.

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Audience and Scope

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