NeatVision: spread the word
Working on our senior design project, which has been taking up all my ‘free’ time, has led me to discover one of my holy grails.
I have finally found a satisfactory, free image processing environment: NeatVision. It is a Java-based visual programming environment for chaining together image processing algorithms; it also allows the user to write Java code, while inside the environment, for new algorithm blocks. The samples of it in action provided at the website are really getting me wet 
I’m surprised this is the first I’ve heard of it. I haven’t used it yet– I’m downloading the JAI right now, so I can run it– but it seems almost perfect; certainly it looks better than Matlab combined with the Image Toolkit, and it’s a lot cheaper too. The only major complaint I have is that it seems like implementing non-routine mathematical operations, like the sort Matlab is good for, requires you to write Java code. There should be some type of scripting overlay.
But it’s apparently within 
of perfection.
March 6th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I am considering NeatVision as well, but the project looks like it is dead. No more recent releases the last 2-3 years. Sadly it is NOT OpenSource as far as I know, so I conclude it will die at some point in the future
I am going to write the developers to ask for future plans. I consider it if it will be FREE’ly (in terms of code) available.
Please let me know how it goes for you, I am really interested whether you can acutally use it!
THANK YOU, best regards,
Markus