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Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is an MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of the Microsoft Windows OS.

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WinImages began life in 1985 as a product called ImageMaster. It was ported to Windows in 1989, which is when the name was changed to WinImages. In February of 1992, an early version of WinImages (known as ImageMaster at that time) became the first product to bring morphing to the personal computer.


As of December 2004, WinImages is at version 7.5.


Summary of WinImages Features

  • Timeline for animation on still image, and animation on animation
  • 177 image manipulation operation classes in 15 functional groups
  • 790 built-in static or timeline-aware controls
  • Unlimited number of scripted timeline-aware controls
  • Integral ray tracer with timeline-aware engine
  • Integral heightfield renderer with timeline-aware engine
  • Integral particle system renderer with timeline-aware engine
  • Integral texture generator with timeline-aware engine
  • 74 layer modes, the usual 20 or so, plus unusual modes like geometric warping
  • 14 area selection tools
  • Embedded custom scripting language similar to BASIC
  • RGB, HSV, CMY and CMYK color separation
  • Open plug-in specification (presumes C is development language) with services
  • Reads 340 variations of 22 different bitmap image file types
  • Writes 25 variations of 13 different bitmap image file types
  • Additional animation types are extended by Windows 32-bit CODECS

External Links

  • [Black Belt Systems (http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/)]
  • [Official Page (http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/windex.html)]
  • [Tutorials (http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/html_docs/f_tutorials.html)]
  • [In-Depth Review (http://www.indrev.com/wi1.htm)]
  • [Scripts and Plug-Ins (http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/wi_extras.html)]
  • [Plug-in Developer Docs (http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/html_docs/f_appi.html)]

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WinImages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (205 words)
Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects.
WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows.
As of December 2004, WinImages is at version 7.5.
Graphics.com Gallery :: WinImages (627 words)
Here, WinImages was used to produce a lovely fractal, and then that in turn was passed to WinImages' landscape renderer to see what would happen.
Using one of WinImages 77 layer blend modes, "warp", the flames were made to coalesce about her body.
WinImages supports "Image Barrels", a much more powerful implementation of "image-spewing brushstrokes." Brushes can re-size, and/or shadow rationally, and/or flip, and/or fade in or out or through or peak, and/or rotate (even to follow the brush stroke!) as a natural part of the drawing process.
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