Image Display and Manipulation

 The following packages and programs provide tools for converting, manipulating, as well as displaying all kinds of images and image sequences.

Netpbm:

Netpbm is a toolkit for conversion of images between a variety of different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations. Netpbm is based on the widely spread Pbmplus package written by Jef Poskanzer.

XV:

John Bradley's xv is an interactive image manipulation program for X Windows that converts image files to and from GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, X11 bitmap, Sun rasterfile, RLE, RGB, BMP, PCX, and PM formats.
The on-line version of the xv Manual is available locally (see also at Trilon, Inc. ).

ImageMagick:

John Cristy's ImageMagick is an X11 package for display and interactive manipulation of images. The sophisticated package includes tools for image conversion, annotation, compositing, animation, and creating montages. ImageMagick can read and write many of the more popular image formats (e.g. JPEG, TIFF, PNM, XPM, Photo CD, etc.);

XAnim:

Mark Podlipec's XAnim is a program for viewing a wide variety of animation formats under X11.

MPEG:

Andy Hung's mpeg is a multimedia image sequence compression/decompression program that performs MPEG encoding and decoding.