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GIMP originally stood for ''General Image Manipulation Program''. Its creators, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, began developing GIMP as a semester-long project at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995.〔(GIMP - Prehistory - Before GIMP 0.54 )〕 The name was changed to the ''GNU Image Manipulation Program'' in 1997, after Kimball and Mattis had graduated, when it became an official part of the GNU Project.〔(GIMP - Documentation )〕 ==GIMP 0.54== GIMP 0.54 was released in January 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 A Brief History of GIMP )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 A Brief History of GIMP ) 〕 It required X11 displays, an X-server that supported the X shared memory extension and Motif 1.2 widgets. It supported 8, 15, 16 and 24-bit color depths, dithering for 8-bit displays and could view images as RGB color, grayscale or indexed color. It could simultaneously edit multiple images, zoom and pan in real-time, and supported GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and XPM images.〔 Even at this early stage of development GIMP functionality was extensive. It could select regions using rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier, and intelligent selection tools, and rotate, scale, shear and flip images. It had bucket, brush and airbrush painting tools, and could clone, convolve, and blend images. It had text tools, effects filters (such as blur and edge detect), and channel and color operations (such as add, composite, decompose). The plugin system allowed for addition of new file formats and new effect filters. It supported multiple undo and redo operations.〔 It ran on Linux 1.2.13, Solaris 2.4, HP-UX 9.05, and SGI IRIX operating systems.〔 It was rapidly adopted by users, 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Gimp stuff )〕 who created tutorials, displayed artwork and shared techniques.〔〔 An early success for GIMP was the Linux penguin Tux, as drawn by Larry Ewing using Gimp 0.54. By July 5, 1996 the volume of messages posted to the mailing list had risen and the mailing list was split into two lists, gimp-developer and gimp-user. Currently, user questions are directed to the gimpnet IRC channel.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GIMP version history」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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