The PBM utilities (now net pbm) did something similar for bitmaps. I think V10 also had some pipeline utils for manipulating images.
In article <89568f5cfeef17d6b1a79f12daeea...@quintile.net>, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: >> Building environment for dataflow >> programming from shell interpreter. > >This is always somthing I have wanted to do for video stream >processing, writeing a limited proceedural language which can >be refactored as a dataflow graph for efficent implementation >(of video processing). > >I always imagined it as a shell-like language rather than actually >using an existing shell. > >Sadly this never got further than ideas and a few email exchanges with Byron. > >If you find any papers describing such things I would be interested >in any references - I think I found some stuff from Berkley in the >early 1990s from their work on a reconfigurable FPGA based image >processing engine. > >-Steve > -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 50 729-7545 D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL