RightBrain tries October surprise

San Francisco Ð As October surprises go, it didn't have quite the impact of arms for hostages. Instead, RightBrain Software's sneak announcement of an image-processing application made only a slight ripple in NeXT's most glutted software category.

PhotoSynthesis is based on the image engine from MediaLogic's Artisan, an image-processing program for SPARC computers. Its tiling ability lets users manipulate large images quickly.

RightBrain showed the program privately at Seybold, along with a new music-notation program, Music Scribe. The real October surprise, however, is the status of RightBrain's flagship product, PasteUp, which still was not shipping at press time.

Ð Dan Ruby