Indigo2 IMPACT Video Programmer's Guide

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CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Carolyn Curtis

Illustrated by Cheri Brown, Scott Pritchett, and Carolyn Curtis

Edited by Christina Cary

Engineering contributions by Bruno Wolf, Michael Minakami, Judy Ting, I-Ching Wang, Grant Dorman, Jeff Schmidt, and Scott Pritchett

Document Production by Ruth Christian

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Silicon Graphics, the Silicon Graphics logo, OpenGL, and IRIS are registered trademarks and Indigo2 IMPACT, Indigo2 IMPACT Video, Indigo2 IMPACT Compression, IRIX, IRIS InSight, Galileo Video, IndyCam, Video Library, Graphics Library, and GL are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. MII is a trademark of Panasonic, Inc. Betacam and Sony are registered trademarks and Hi-8mm and U-Matic are trademarks of Sony Corporation. S-VHS is a trademark of JVC, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd. X Window System is a trademark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Figure 7-4, in Chapter 7, is derived from Thomas Porter and Tom Duff, “Compositing Digital Images,” published by the Association for Computing Machinery, 1984.