Lynkeos
Lynkeos processes astronomical webcam images. By stacking the best images, the signal to noise ratio is increased, and details lost in the noise of individual images become visible in the resulting image. This software accepts, as input, QuickTime sequences or still images, in any image format supported by its active plugins and Cocoa. It generates a 16-bit RGB TIFF image as output, to be further processed with some all-purpose image processing application.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Scientific/Engineering Astronomy |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Objective C |
| Translations | French English Italian |
Recent releases
- 19 Dec 2008 18:55
Changes: Updated to version 2.4 of the LynkeosCore framework. The addition of images comparison functions (blink and blend) for manual alignment.
- 19 Dec 2008 18:53
Changes: Correction of TIFF display on Intel (2127078). Support for floating point TIFF (2216462). Process toggling on/off in the process stack window (2248076). Implementation of a cache for image processing. Refactoring of process chaining. A fix for a display bug when switching to/from calibration frames. Better handling of exceptions in threads. A compatibility fix for reading files older than V2.3. Access to the process window through the "window" menu. Optimization of image refresh. Access to plugins help. Independent zoom factor for list and result modes.
- 02 Nov 2008 02:30
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 11 Oct 2008 19:02
Changes: The European Southern Observatory algorithm was added to the wavelet tool. Parallelization (for multiproc/multicore) and vectorization (for Altivec/SSE) were implemented on most of the image processes. A LynkeosCore framework was created to allow external processing plugin developement. A RAW conversion preference pane was added. Many bugs were fixed.
- 01 May 2008 13:46
Changes: This release add tools to correct the chromatic dispersion and tune the color balance of the resulting image. It also fixes some bugs.
