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| author | William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu> | 2017-05-09 19:45:36 (GMT) |
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| committer | William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu> | 2017-05-09 19:45:36 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/ds9/doc/story.html b/ds9/doc/story.html index 86e60ab..032887e 100644 --- a/ds9/doc/story.html +++ b/ds9/doc/story.html @@ -1,59 +1,63 @@ <!DOCTYPE doctype PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> -<head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" - content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> - <meta name="GENERATOR" - content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]"> - <title>Story of SAOImage DS9</title> -</head> -<body link="#0000ee" text="#000000" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#ff0000" - bgcolor="#ffffff"> -<h3> <img alt="" src="sun.gif" height="98" width="100" align="middle"> -The Story of SAOImage DS9: How DS9 got its name<br> -</h3> -<blockquote> - <p>In 1990, Mike Van Hilst, at the Smithsonian Astrophysical -Observatory, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, developed -SAOImage. SAOImage was first implemented in X10, then reimplemented in -X11. In fact, it was one of the first X11 based applications publicly -made available. SAOImage was a brilliant program, implementing -techniques in scientific visualization 20 years ago that are still -being used by today's applications. Since Mike's departure from SAO, -SAOImage has been maintained by Doug Mink.</p> - <p>In the mid 1990's, with the administrative support of Steve -Murray, Eric Mandel developed SAOtng, or -(SAOImage, The Next Generation), named after the Star Trek series. TNG -was based on IRAF's XIMTOOL graphics libraries and Tcl. It explored new -GUI interfaces and supported a new external analysis interface. In -particular, it utilized XPA, (X11 Public Access, also written by Eric) -which allowed TNG to be scripted via a shell, or from other application.</p> - <p>In 1998, while working with Eric, William Joye began a complete -rewrite of TNG, based on the experience developed while supporting TNG. -This project was funded by the NASA Applied Information Systems -Research Program, under the title "Future Directions for Astronomical -Image Display". For lack of a name, the new project was referred to as -DS9, the logical extension of the Star Trek series. The name continues -to be in use. Current funding is provided by the NASA High Energy -Astrophysics Science Archive Center and the Chandra X-ray Science -Center.<br> - </p> - <p>DS9 is a Tcl/Tk application. The GUI is implemented as a very thin -layer of Tk. A number of Tk Canvas widgets in C++ were created to -support all the functionality needed. Basically, all the real work is -done in C++. DS9 inherited TNG's support of regions, XPA, external -analysis support, and the general GUI. However, all the visualization -techniques come directly from SAOImage.</p> - <p>The current version of DS9 is composed of the Tk widgets created -along with support from about 20 other open source products (including -Tcl/Tk, AST, BLT, HCompress, HTMLWidget, plio, rics, tcllib, tclxml, -tkcon, tkimg, tktable, wcssubs, xmlrpc, XPA, zip, zlib, and zvfs). The -distributed binaries consist of a self-contained self-extracting -archive and application, which provides an independent Tcl/Tk -environment without installation.</p> - <p>The first versions of SAOImage DS9 were made available in 1999. -Since then, the popularity of DS9 has grown far beyond expectations.<br> - </p> -</blockquote> -</body> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; + charset=windows-1252"> + <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux + 2.4.7-10 i686) [Netscape]"> + <title>Story of SAOImageDS9</title> + </head> + <body vlink="#551a8b" text="#000000" link="#0000ee" bgcolor="#ffffff" + alink="#ff0000"> + <h3> <img alt="" src="sun.gif" width="100" height="98" + align="middle"> The Story of SAOImageDS9: How DS9 got its name<br> + </h3> + <blockquote> + <p>In 1990, Mike Van Hilst, at the Smithsonian Astrophysical + Observatory, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, + developed SAOImage. SAOImage was first implemented in X10, then + reimplemented in X11. In fact, it was one of the first X11 based + applications publicly made available. SAOImage was a brilliant + program, implementing techniques in scientific visualization 20 + years ago that are still being used by today's applications. + Since Mike's departure from SAO, SAOImage has been maintained by + Jessica Mink.</p> + <p>In the mid 1990's, with the administrative support of Steve + Murray, Eric Mandel developed SAOtng, or (SAOImage, The Next + Generation), named after the Star Trek series. TNG was based on + IRAF's XIMTOOL graphics libraries and Tcl. It explored new GUI + interfaces and supported a new external analysis interface. In + particular, it utilized XPA, (X11 Public Access, also written by + Eric) which allowed TNG to be scripted via a shell, or from + other application.</p> + <p>In 1998, while working with Eric, William Joye began a complete + rewrite of TNG, based on the experience developed while + supporting TNG. This project was funded by the NASA Applied + Information Systems Research Program, under the title "Future + Directions for Astronomical Image Display". For lack of a name, + the new project was referred to as DS9, the logical extension of + the Star Trek series. The name continues to be in use. Current + funding is provided by the NASA High Energy Astrophysics Science + Archive Center and the Chandra X-ray Science Center.<br> + </p> + <p>DS9 is a Tcl/Tk application. The GUI is implemented as a very + thin layer of Tk. A number of Tk Canvas widgets in C++ were + created to support all the functionality needed. Basically, all + the real work is done in C++. DS9 inherited TNG's support of + regions, XPA, external analysis support, and the general GUI. + However, all the visualization techniques come directly from + SAOImage.</p> + <p>The current version of DS9 is composed of the Tk widgets + created along with support from about 20 other open source + products (including Tcl/Tk, AST, BLT, HCompress, HTMLWidget, + plio, rics, tcllib, tclxml, tkcon, tkimg, tktable, wcssubs, + xmlrpc, XPA, zip, zlib, and zvfs). The distributed binaries + consist of a self-contained self-extracting archive and + application, which provides an independent Tcl/Tk environment + without installation.</p> + <p>The first versions of DS9 were made available in 1999. Since + then, the popularity of DS9 has grown far beyond expectations.<br> + </p> + </blockquote> + </body> </html> |