October 1998 update ------------------- ALEX was updated to be compatible with MIDEVA and MATLAB 5 by Ben Hirsh, MathTools Ltd. All changes are released to the public domain. ALEX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Use at your own risk. For other free toolboxes, visit our web site, http://www.mathtools.com. Original version README - -------------------------- ALEX beta1 version, README 06 November, 1995 ALEX is (or would like to be) a MATLAB-based SFM image Processor. If you have any questions or suggestions plese contact: Claudio e-mail: claudio@alice.uoregon.edu Mark e-mail: mark@alice.uoregon.edu ========= Copyright 1995 by Claudio Rivetti and Mark Young ============= The authors are not responsible for any problems this software may cause, such as operating system crashes or other permanent damage to system files, or for any inaccuracies in the algorithms supplied. This software may be freely distributed, copied, modified, and incorporated into other applications in source or object form. If this software, or any part of it, is incorporated into other applications, the corresponding source code must be also distributed, and this notice must accompany the code. The authors make no guarantee as to the accuracy and/or reliability of this software and are under no obligation to correct any inaccuracies or unreliabilities. If the code is modified in such a way as to require a new version the authors must be consulted. This restriction does not apply to extra functions added without modifying the present code. ======================= FILES FROM OTHER SOURCES ====================== The following files were downloaded from the Mathworks.com ftp site (contrib directory). Some of them were slightly modified by Claudio Rivetti and Mark Young to fit the ALEX toolbox EDIT WITH SCROLLBAR scrledit.m readstr.m by I. Bucher Email : i.bucher@ic.ac.uk PAGE SETUP AND PRINT pgsetup.m isobj.m Copyright (c) 1995 by Keith Rogers, kerog@sp.isl.secom.co.jp 3D VIEWER: 3Dviewer/closeviewer.m 3Dviewer/degrees.m 3Dviewer/findfig.m 3Dviewer/gcm.m 3Dviewer/radians.m 3Dviewer/readme 3Dviewer/rot4x.m 3Dviewer/rot4y.m 3Dviewer/rot4z.m 3Dviewer/viewer.m 3Dviewer/vwrcback.m 3Dviewer/wrkcback.m Keith Rogers 11/30/93 preview capability - 12/29/93 Patrick Marchand, pmarchan@motown.ge.com COLORMAP EDITOR icol Ken Chin-Purcell (ken@ahpcrc.umn.edu) Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Univeristy of Minnesota http://s1.arc.umn.edu/html/gvl-software/icol.html IMAGES chromo.afm latex.afm magbac.tm saltcell.tm sic_cell.afm These image files are a copy of those distributed with the SFM software by Digital Instruments. SPIDER was written by Joachim Frank and is copyrighted (c) 1981, 1988, 1995 by the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, The New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201 ========================== ACKNOWLEDGMENT ============================= We thank Mathworks for developing and continuosly upgrading Matlab. Keith Rogers, Patrick Marchand, I. Bucher and Ken Chin-Purcell for providing some of the ALEX utilities. Joachim Frank and the Wadsworth Center for the SPIDER file format. Digital Instruments for helping us in the data translation and for permission to use some of their images and the colormaps of the Nanoscope software. Claudio Rivetti thanks HFSP for supporting him at the University of Oregon. Mark Young thanks the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for supporting him at the University of Oregon. ============================= CITATION ============================== If you wish just mention that ALEX was written by Claudio Rivetti and Mark Young at the University of Oregon. Thanks. =========================================================================== DON'T HAVE HAVE TOO MUCH FUN!