simage 1.6.0 Released
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Preamble
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simage is a multiplatform library capable of loading, manipulating and
saving images, creating and saving movies (AVI and mpeg), and loading
audio. The simage library relies heavily on 3rd party libraries to
perform these tasks.

simage is part of the Coin3D family of libraries
<http://www.coin3d.org> created by Systems In Motion
<http://www.sim.no>.

New in this release
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* Added support for reading an image one line at a time
* Added functions for setting external dynamic loader interface
  (not currently in use)
* Disabled dysfunctional guile support

New in previous releases
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v1.5
* Extended streaming interface to support seeking in a stream
* Added functions to set color component order

v1.4
* Added stream interface used for reading audio

v1.3 (2001-12-03)
* Added simage_resize3d

v1.2 (2001-06-01)
* movie support
* guile binding

v1.1 (2001-02-05)
* save capabilities

v1.0 (2000-10-23)
* first release

Download instructions
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We will regularly package up new bugfix releases of the simage library
into source code archives for distribution on the FTP site whenever we
feel this is justified by the number and/or severity of the fixed
bugs. This also goes for updated binary installation packages.

Precompiled for MS Windows:
  Visit http://www.coin3d.org/ and download the "Coin3D for Windows" 
  installation package

Source Code by FTP:
  ftp://ftp.sim.no/pub/coin/src/simage-1.6.0.tar.gz

Source Code by CVS:
    cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.coin3d.org:/export/cvsroot login
    [password "cvs"]
    cvs -z3 -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.coin3d.org:/export/cvsroot co simage


Best regards,

Thomas Hammer
developer @ Systems in Motion.
