This is a simple help for program 'SmthTester.exe' that was used as a core of the program package for experiments of the paper " Synthetic Image of Multiresolution Sketch Leads to New Features ", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT 2004), 6-9 September 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece. pp. 872-879, IEEE Computer Society 2004, ISBN 0-7695-2223-8 . The paper draft is here /**************************************************/ 1. This research software was tested under Windows-2000 and XP operating system. We did not study the range of operating systems where it works. 2. Framework.Net must be installed previously on your computer 3. Copy all content of the folder with actual Readme1st file to your own directory. This content includes the application and all needed *.dll files, it also includes some *.jpg archives for processing. You can also load for processing a picture of yours. 4. There is no "Help" in the application, so, please, read this instruction carefully. 5. Disclaimer: processing is somewhat slow for large images, although the larger picture, the better demonstrative effect of the program. [In principle, it can be reprogrammed to be hundred times faster just avoiding use of very inefficient "list of lists of lists...", but it is a task for a future project.] Sorry about inconvenience. 6. Start the only application of the folder in a standard way. 7. There are two options for processing: 7.1. Load any image-file with a standard extension, not larger than 700X700 pixels. For example, load any of *.jpg files included into the set. 7.2. Process a synthetic image: Copy by a text-editor a formula from any text-file included into the directory, and paste in into the window which appears in the File->Load Expression option. The rest will be clear from menu's options available. Also, you can write your own formula into the same window to generate a synthetic image to be processed. Use our files *.txt as templates to understand how to do it. 8. While processing the input image from your left subwindow, you will observe gradual appearance of the processed slices in the right subwindow. 9. The processing finishes when the slice titled "Synthetic image" appears. 10. During and after the main processing you can interact with the program to visualize in different ways its intermediate or final results. 10.1 Left button of the mouse visualizes (highlights) in the actual slice a tracked curve that contains a gedgel close to the mouse position. 10.2. Right button of the mouse visualizes a "slice object" that represents a joint bundle of tracked curves close in a meaning to the one of p. 10.1. 10.3 Middle button works only when the main processing has been finished. It visualizes a "inter-slice object" that represents a joint bundle of tracked slice objects close in a meaning to the one of p.10.2. Use controls available in window to modify visualization. 11. The Synthetic image is a formal sum of all gedgels found in all slices. The goal of its construction is to show intuitively how informative are the structures found by the processing. This can be seen better if you would export the synthetic image into a picture editor and make its negative. Then compare it with the original. 12. For the purpose of p.11 and others goals, you can copy the image from any active image window for pasting it into any application. For our purposes, we applied Microsoft Photo Editor, and specifically its two options: Image->Balance->Gamma Effects->Negative 13. Two files will be created automatically in the current work directory for each call of the program. They are 'slice_data.txt' and 'ISO_data.txt'. These are interface files for subsequent processing of the results by other components, not included here, of the package for the paper. Neither have we explained the meaning of the information in the files. So a good way for you is to delete these two files manually after each call of the program. Good luck! Authors