From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 13:43:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA04788 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04783 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA25588 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:42:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA27808 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608092042.NAA27808@athena.tera.com> Subject: (fwd) winc: color UNIX support for the WinCam (fwd) To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:42:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Fellow FreeBSD'ers, Enclosed in a posting from alt.sources on my FBSD system relating to a medium-resolution color CCD digital camera. The author, Paul Fox, has done a unix port. Thought I would share the news.... gary ----- Forwarded message from Gary Kline ----- Xref: tao alt.sources:3193 From: pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (Paul Fox) Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: winc: color UNIX support for the WinCam Date: 8 Aug 1996 03:20:45 GMT Organization: FoxHarper Associates Lines: 63 Message-ID: <4ubmed$biv@news1.wing.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gutso.american.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] hi -- a while ago i bought a WinCam.One digital camera (www.wincam.com) to play with. it's a cheap ($200) 640x480 color ccd camera that connects to a serial port. it comes with Windows software for taking pix, along with a copy of Paint Shop PRO. this is all great if you run Windows mostly, but i don't. so i got in touch with the folks that make it, to ask when they'd be doing a linux or other unix version. one thing led to another: they let me have some specs, i wrote a bunch of code, they let me have some of their code for the tricky color processing parts, and now i'm pleased to announce that the latest version of "winc", my package of unix code that drives the camera, is available, does color, and is licensed via copyleft, i.e. the GNU public license. you can see examples of pictures taken with the WinCam at their website -- they have the usual high-quality still examples, and a number of live cameras as well. two of the live cameras are running winc on a linux box. there's a pointer to my ftp site there (on the support page), or you can get it directly from ftp://id.wing.net/pub/pgf/winc/winc-23.tar.gz. if you have trouble getting in, keep trying -- it's a busy server. i have no financial connections with StarDot Technologies -- i just wanted to be able to play with digital photos, needed a camera that could be some distance from my computer, and the WinCam filled the bill. i'd like to thank StarDot for being willing to publish some of their code under the GPL. (well, my translation of some of their code -- it used to be assembler, now it's C.) i hope it helps them sell cameras -- it's certainly made mine more useful to me. to describe winc, i'll just quote part of the README... ---------------- What you get is: - three programs: - winc, which will take pictures from the command line -- it has too many options, and does too much. i use it during development of the winc library, so it can do just about anything the library can. usually, though, all you want is "winc -c >image.pnm". - wincd, which will repetitively take pictures, only saving the ones that are "interesting". i use this (in combination with "wincd_script") to drive a web page of recent pictures of my dog, waiting at home until i get there. no, i won't publish the URL. :-) - fwinc, a simple X11 program which continuously displays low-resulotion "viewfinder" images. this is useful for aiming and focusing the camera. it could (and probably will be) easily extended to be a more general WinCam application. - a library: libwinc.a, which can be linked into other programs. - some patches for the "xv" image manipulation tool, which give it simple built-in wincam support. - a shell script (wincd_script) which does periodic snapshots, and will optionally save past snaps. ---------------- paul -- --------------------- paul fox, pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma) -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix ----- End of forwarded message from Gary Kline -----