[Sorry for the resend. This time hopefully without auto-formatting.]
Pan Release announcement
Pan is an experimental embedded language and compiler for image
synthesis and manipulation, based on functional programming. You can
get the compiler and do some Haskell programming do make your own
effects, or get some of the precompiled effects and twiddle parameters
to your heart's content. It's fun!
The Pan compiler turns descriptions of images and image effects into
efficient machine code for use with the Pan viewer program, web-page
embedding (viewable with Internet Explorer 5.5 or later), or as a
PhotoShop plug-in. All have automatically generated GUIs for control
of the image synthesis/manipulation parameters with real-time
redisplay. In the Pan viewer case the parameter settings may be saved
into a small file for use later or sharing with others.
See the Pan home page at http://research.microsoft.com/~conal/Pan,
where you'll find a gallery of sample images and animations, papers on
the language and implementation, instructions for use, and the binary
and source releases.
For now, Pan-generated effects run only on Windows. We welcome help
in porting to other platforms. It also assumes you have the Microsoft
Visual C++, though we think it wouldn't be very hard to support other
compilers and again we welcome help.
Please let us know what you do with Pan, both trouble you run into,
and (better) examples you construct with it ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
