On Tue, 01 Sep 1998 19:30:58 -0500, Dan Connelly <djc### [at] flashnet>
wrote:

>Jim Kress wrote:
>> 
>> You can do similar averaging (like Warp's) with Paint Shop Pro v5 but on any
>> type of image.
>> 
>
>But only two images at once...
>
>To average, for example, 13 images with PSP would be a challenge
>if each is to be weighted equally.
>

Go to my homepage listed below and download the short utility "Warp's
Targa Averager" from my downloads page. It will produce a single
averaged image from a multitude of initial targa images. There is no
PSP required or anything else. 

My site has the Win95 console version of the utility, and there is a
link to Warp's original site that has a DOS version. Original source
code is included to port the utility to Linux or whatever one needs.

An additional note: the utility can also create "delta images", which
are the result of subtracting one image from another. This can be used
on a series of animation frames in an attempt to reduce their storage
requirements for lossless archiving, etc. The "delta frames" will need
to be unconverted before being viewed normaly, but Warp's utility can
also perform this restoration. This is a somewhat experimental
feature, in that delta frames are not a standard storage format. Warp
was nice enough to add that feature at my request, so I could perform
some tests of delta frame effectiveness. With some animations, it does
help reduce lossless storage requirements considerably when combined
with lossless compression techniques.

Later,
Glen Berry

Vice Project Coordinator
The Internet Movie Project (IMP)
Homepage: http://www.algonet.se/~jhubert/MovieProject/index.html

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