We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.
The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.