1  Short overview

What’s all about?
iceWing, an Integrated Communication Environment Which Is Not Gesten (This is a reference to an older program, the predecessor of iceWing.) is a graphical plugin shell. It is optimized for image processing and vision system development. But its use in totally different fields of research is as well possible, e.g. audio-stream processing. Predefined or self-written plugins operate hierarchically on data provided by other plugins and can also generate new data-streams, allowing flexible communication and interaction between these plugins. An important predefined plugin is the grabbing plugin, which can read images from the disk in various image formats, from grabber-hardware, e.g. V4L2-devices or FireWire, and also from external, network wide processes via DACS streams.

Not being only a batch-plugin-shell iceWing is also a highly customizable GUI platform for the plugins: It has a list of given GUI-elements and allows the plugins to simply make use of them. So plugins can show the user their current status and can let the user change parameters on the fly. Moreover methods of easy visualization of plugin results are available. The plugins can open any number of windows and display in these windows any data in a graphical form.

Where to get iceWing?

• The homepage for iceWing can be found at
    http://icewing.sourceforge.net
• There are two mailing lists dedicated to iceWing user and development discussion. More infos about these mailing lists can be found at
    http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=151242
  Please use these lists for any questions, patches, or anything else concerning iceWing.
• Additionally, the main author can be reached at
    floemker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Who did iceWing?
Program:
  Frank Lömker, floemker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
This documentation:
  Frank Lömker, floemker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
  Initial installation and user guide: Andreas Hüwel, andreas.huewel@gmx.de
  Programming guide translation of V0.8.1: Ilker Savas

License
iceWing is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

iceWing is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.