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One of the techniques I find extremely useful -and yet underexploited- is based on the human eye’s remarkable ability to detect imperceptible differences between two consecutive images. Heck, the whole Hollywood and TV industries are based on that simple principle. A Scientific American article argued that such evolutionary trait was caused by the need to detect a rapidly approaching beast, human or otherwise.
But I digress… In SCO or Linux machines you can have two screen filled with lots of words and numbers and by quickly alternating the Ctl-Alt-F1 and Ctl-Alt-F2 keys, you can easily spot the tiniest of differences.
An inferior strategy is to load both files, say in Eclipse, and place them side-by-side or separated by a horizontal divider. This works for text only.
Now the question: I could really use a graphic file viewer that allowed me to enjoy this alternating effect. Speaking of inferior: you can open a file with the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and move to the next image, but alas, it is too slow. In order to achieve the effect, both files have to be in RAM at once, and the program must have been optimized to accomplish the described dual view.
My files are TIFF and huge.
Comments? Suggestions? Pointers?
-Ramon
But I digress… In SCO or Linux machines you can have two screen filled with lots of words and numbers and by quickly alternating the Ctl-Alt-F1 and Ctl-Alt-F2 keys, you can easily spot the tiniest of differences.
An inferior strategy is to load both files, say in Eclipse, and place them side-by-side or separated by a horizontal divider. This works for text only.
Now the question: I could really use a graphic file viewer that allowed me to enjoy this alternating effect. Speaking of inferior: you can open a file with the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and move to the next image, but alas, it is too slow. In order to achieve the effect, both files have to be in RAM at once, and the program must have been optimized to accomplish the described dual view.
My files are TIFF and huge.
Comments? Suggestions? Pointers?
-Ramon
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