This is the most recent source tree for the iac++ library,
developed to support Image Algebra programming as described
in *The Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra*,
by Gerhard X. Ritter and Joseph N. Wilson.

This project reached end-of-life in 1995.
At that time, C++ was still a relatively unstable language platform.
In particular, the template system--upon which we relied heavily--was
still not well implemented and standardized.  The original implementation
of the STL by HP had been completed in 1994 but had not met with
general acceptance yet. Template metaprogramming was still a new
concept. We were aiming at a moving target.  This project may not
even compile today, and if it was being reimplemented today, we
would surely use a completely different method of template
generation.

Mark Schmalz has been heading up a project to implement image algebra
in a Matlab toolbox.  This is described in the paper Mark S. Schmalz,
Gerhard X. Ritter, Junior Barrera, Jaako T. Astola, "Image Algebra Matlab
language version 2.3 for image processing and compression research,"
Proceedings of SPIE 7799, 779906 (2010); doi:10.1117/12.864277.
Please refer queries about currently active Image Algebra implementations
to him at mssz@cise.ufl.edu.

Feel free, however, to use this at your own risk.
