Date: Thu, 13 Oct 94 15:47:18 EST
Subject: Re: Visilog?
From: forbes@cip.org.ec (Greg Forbes)


> I saw your note mentioning Visilog: do you have any experience with it?
> We got it as part of our imaging package (Cameca electron microprobe) but
> I find it rather user unfriendly (thick manual but not easy to figure out
> is my experience), no tutorials, no step by step explanations (just
> definitions
> of functions, etc). I now need to do some non-standard modal calculations
> off
> images and IF visilog could do the job, I'd try to use it--but as is, I'm
> trying to do it with NIH Image....

John,
I've not used it much. In Britain, some nationwide research
organization called CHEST evaluated several packages and picked Visilog.
It is supposed to be very powerful. I visited a skilled user in
Aberdeen, Scotland who is very happy with it. I think he had also used
NIH was preferred Visilog.

Why don't you sign up to the new Visilog list. It has had very little
information posted so far and you questions would be welcome. The
Noesis people who are near to the authors and currently developing
Visilog follow the list and seem to respond rapidly to problems.

As far as I know the list is manual.

I'll include message sent by the list organizer.

> So how're the potatoes doing? I almost got down to Guagua Pinchinca a few
> years back when I was working on Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. Do volcanic
> soils make for good potatoes?

You would have enjoyed it. I went in last year and was impressed.
Potatoes are very happy here except for a little fungus called
Phytophthora infestans of Irish famine fame. That's what my job is
about.

Greg

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