Prolog Image Processing (proImpro)
Welcome to the homepage for proImpro, the Prolog Image
Processing extension for OpenProlog for MacOS.
Motivation
Prolog is a rule based language and inference engine which allow for
a descriptive use of image processing. This work is based and supports the
work of Prof. B.G. Batchelor of COMSC at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Based on his work, PIP (an 8bit image processing library) and now proImpro an
attempt to a 32bit image processing library is attempted.
Tools
The main focus of the work is in the image processing extension to Prolog.
The original work was based on LPAProlog (MacProlog), a commercial Prolog
package. Due to cost factor, the currently the work uses OpenProlog
as an freeware Prolog interpreter. The development environment is MPW on
MacOS 9, also available for free at the Apple website .
Status
This work is in the initial coding stages. A first version (0.0)
is available: "Release early, release often". To build this release,
make sure that a copy of OpenProlog resides in the folder containing the
Makefile and run 'build' in MPW. This should build and install the code
resource which is automatically loaded when OpenProlog starts up. You
then need to consult the files in the /Prolog sub folder. If all this
by any miracle works for you, you should be able to load a PICT image
(loa('Macintosh HD:image').) and perform some processing on it.
Note: OpenProlog can only keep 32k of text in the main window, so clear
it out often.
News
06/04/2002
I uploaded a few bug fixes and updates for maintenance. Work has started
on the drawing functions for 32bit images.
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