Digital Image Display Control System, DIDCS

David Fischel; Daniel A. Klinglesmith III

doi:10.1117/12.957110

3 May 1979 Digital Image Display Control System, DIDCS

David Fischel, Daniel A. Klinglesmith III

Proceedings Volume 0172, Instrumentation in Astronomy III; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957110
Event: Instrumentation in Astronomy, 1979, Tucson, United States

Abstract

DIDCS is an interactive image display and manipulation system that is used for a variety of astronomical image reduction and analysis operations. The hardware system consists of a PDP 11/40 main frame with 32K of 16-bit core memory; 96K of 16-bit MOS memory; two 9 track. 800 BPI tape drives; eight 2.5 million byte RK05 type disk packs, three user terminals, and a COMTAL 8000-S display system which has sufficient memory to store and display three 512 x 512 x 8 bit images along with an overlay plane and function table for each image, a psuedo color table and the capability for displaying true color. The software system is based around the language FORTH, which will permit an open ended dictionary of user level words for image analyses and display. A description of the hardware and software systems will be presented along with examples of the types of astronomical research that are being performed. Also a short discussion of the commonality and exchange of this type of image analysis system will be given.

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David Fischel and Daniel A. Klinglesmith III "Digital Image Display Control System, DIDCS", Proc. SPIE 0172, Instrumentation in Astronomy III, (3 May 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957110

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