Indigo2 Video[tm] for Indigo2 IMPACT[tm] Programmer's Guide

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CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Carolyn Curtis

Illustrated by Cheri Brown and Carolyn Curtis

Production by Heather Hermstad

Engineering contributions by I-Ching Wang, Ed Goldberg, Alan Chang, John Gibbon, Bob Abbott, Judy Ting, and Jeff Schmidt

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Figure 5-6, in Chapter 5, is derived from Thomas Porter and Tom Duff, “Compositing Digital Images,” published by the Association for Computing Machinery, 1984.