The Quartz Renaissance (QR) Family consists of at least three different products. Quartz Renaissance itself contains prototype plug ins for CPU libraries (Cocoa Renaissance) and bridging those frameworks to Quartz Composer. Quartz Composer Patchwork are a set of CI filters prototyped in Quartz Composer. The Patchwork compositions consist of CIKL and Java Script to demonstrate the essence of the Quartz Renaissance Recipes. Quartz Renaissance Recipes are whole applications that are in and of themselves the API for Quartz Renaissance Services, and possess the ability to construct the GPU recipe on the CPU, and render using the GPU, Core Graphics (CG) Layer, and CG Bitmap Context.
The project using QR at this time is Sky Raider, a project to map the SDSS DR1 into a content management system for all Flexible Image Transport System astronomical research.
Main Goals
- Recipe Builders
- Display (rendering) This is the target area of the dissertation itself.
- Mathematical models
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- SPIHT
- Backward Coding Wavelet Transform
- DWT decomposition techniques
- Mathematical operations in decomposed form
- Principal Component Analysis
- Independent Component Analysis
- Clustering techniques (k-Means, k-Mediods)
- Classification model techniques (Expected Maximization, HMM)
- Evaluation and Prototyping
- Work on QC compositions for desktop and web versions.
- Build services (XGrid Jobs) for more precise operations.
- Build property searches based on QC/CI filters.
- Conclusion
Background material includes:
- IQS Framework (sub-classed from the Web-Objects, and Enterprise Objects.)
- Quartz Renaissance framework itself, which contributes to the analysis of the image data.