Kai's Power Tools for Windows includes 33 filters and extensions for expanding the capabilities of Windows image-manipulation programs that support the Adobe standard plug-in architecture. Such programs include Photoshop, Fauve Matisse, Fractal Design Painter, PhotoStyler, and Picture Publisher Plus.
The Texture Explorer lets you generate an unlimited selection of textures, backgrounds, and materials that you can apply to images, text, backgrounds, or objects. The Gradient Designer allows the use of up to 500 colors at any time. Gradients on Paths wraps any blend around a free-form user path or text selection; the Julia Sets fractal explorer lets you generate and explore using fractals or zoomed fractal segments for masking and mapping. $199.
Contact: HSC Software, Santa Monica, CA, (310) 392-8441.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
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theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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