ALADIN new release

Dear VO people,

This is an annoucement of the official ALADIN V3 MULTIVIEW release.

ScreenDump :     http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/m20a.jpg
Applet URL :     http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/Aladin
Installation :   http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/Aladin?frame=downloading
FAQ :            http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/FAQ.htx
Manual :         available in May

It is a major release. It integrates notably the following points:

• MultiView, multiProjection: splits the main Aladin frame into 2, 4, 9 or 16 panels in order to display simultaneously several images and catalog overlays. Also, Aladin V3 offers zooming synchronization functions associated to this new multiview mode.
• Resampling: recomputes a pixel image according to another image astrometrical calibration.
• Blinking: builds on the fly image sequences (slow movies)
• Full pixel access: full pixel manipulation and not only 8 bits
• GIF, JPEG and PNG support: compatibility with common image formats.
• Scaling functions: log, sqrt, linear, pow2 functions for better pixel contrasts
• Cut graph: along any segment
• Region Of Interest generator: automatically builds small views around interesting catalog objects.
• Cross match algorithm: for better object catalog analysis
• Catalog column generator: allows you to compute new catalog columns via algebric expressions.
• Extended script commands and new console facility: to support new Aladin V3 facilities
• Grid algorithm: improves grid drawing in any coordinate frame
• Demo trace mode: robot mode for "show you demonstrations"
• IRAS/IRIS: Aladin image server provides IRAS/IRIS images.
• SDSS: Aladin offers access to SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)
• Signed applet: Aladin is now a certified code. It means that the previous restricted functions (save, load, print...) are now allowed in applet mode.
• HTTP authentication: Aladin supports HTTP data authentication scheme (RFC 2617) for restricted access data.

Do not hesitate to send remarks and bug reports to question-at-simbad.u-strasbg.fr

Regards
Pierre Fernique
for all the CDS staff Received on 2005-04-22Z10:22:04