File	Date	Author	Commit
cmake	2010-07-12	Petr Cizmar	[6f9a2f] Support function moved to cmake/
debian	2010-07-12	Petr Cizmar	[4a097e] removed depencence on autotools and added cmake...
examples	2010-07-16	Petr Cizmar	[8b5aee] Fixed comments
src	2021-12-10	Petr Cizmar	[114536] [FIX] Bug in sample.cxx
CHANGELOG	2009-10-20	Petr Cizmar	[03305b] released stable 0.4, changelogs updated
CMakeLists.txt	2016-07-09	Petr Cizmar	[a79253] Upgrade to lua5.3
LICENSE	2009-09-24	Petr Cizmar	[29a003] Initial commit
README	2012-11-11	Petr Cizmar	[be3861] README updated - CMake instll
Toolchain-mingw32.cmake	2011-10-26	Petr Cizmar	[69755d] Fixed broken mingw toolchain
config.h.in	2010-07-11	Petr Cizmar	[bbc347] tiny updates

Read Me

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VERY BRIEF DESCRIPTION:

The Artificial SEM Image Generator (ARTIMAGEN) is a library that can generate
artificial scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of various samples,
including gold-on-carbon resolution sample, or some semiconductor structures.
Numerous effects that appear in real SEMs are simulated (noise,
drift-distortion, edge-effect, etc.), which enables assessment of imaging,
metrology or other techniques that work with SEM micrographs. Unlike the real
SEM images, the artificial images exhibit defined types and amounts of these
effects, which is their key advantage.

The Artificial SEM Image Generator has been developed by Petr Cizmar at the U.S.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. The first version of the
generator was written in C to evaluate the ISO-candidate
image-sharpness-calculation techniques. Later, the Artificial SEM Image
Generator became needed for other applications as well and support for new kinds
of samples was added. In order to make the generator more flexible, it was
rewritten to C++. The users now may take advantage of the modular object
structure of the program.

At this time, also C and programs may be linked with the library, which is
enabled by the C wrapper. The basic usage of the library is quite easy.

The scientific background of this software is described in the following
publications:
[1] P. Cizmar, A. E. Vladar, B. Ming, and M. T. Postek.
    Simulated SEM Images for Resolution Measurement.
    SCANNING, 30(5):381­391, Sep-Oct 2008.

[2] P. Cizmar, A. E. Vladar, and M. T. Postek.
    Optimization of Accurate SEM Imaging by Use of Artificial Images
    Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7378 737815-1, May 2009 

Should you use this generator for scientific research, please cite any of these
papers.

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AUTHOR:

	Petr Cizmar, Ph.D., National Institute of Standards and Technology

	Current address: 
		Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
		Bundesallee 100
		38116 Braunschweig
		Germany
	E-mail: petr.cizmar@ptb.de
	Phone:	+49 531 592 5183
	
	Formerly:
		Natiolal Institute of Standards and Technology
		100 Bureau Dr.
		Gaitherburg, MD 20899
		USA 
			


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INSTALLATION:

Prerequisites: ARTIMAGEN depends on libtiff, fftw3, and lua5.1 libraries. For
compilation, CMake is also needed.

The CMake installation procedure follows:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make && make install

For more information, see the CMake documantation at 
  http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/runningcmake.html

In order to compile libartimagen as a shared library, use 
"ccmake .." instead of "cmake .." and set COMPILE_SHARED variable to ON. 
However, this is not recommended, since shared libraries must be compiled as the
Position Independent Code, which is in case of this library (with use of the
gcc-4.3.3 compiler) producing significantly less optimized code. :-(

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LICENSE:

As this software was developed as part of work done by the United States
Government, it is not subject to copyright, and is in the public domain. Note
that according to GNU.org public domain is compatible with GPL.