Where UpicT is coming from and going to .... the background and future directions

UpicT emerged from a prototype first run for in-house use in 2003 that comprised a number of complex manually operated functions amidst automated ones. Each picture took more than 1 hour to produce on a dedicated mid-range machine, which was less than satisfactory for many strategies where it might otherwise have been usefully put to work. The rewrites have gone through a couple of versions, becoming many times more efficient, more automated, and the latest version 2 equipped with sophisticated slicing functionality.

Expressions of interest are sought to participate in a high-powered fully on-line delivery mechanism with super-fast unlimited "live" service to a restricted number of discerning clients -- a service that would be equivalent to the program suite running on a participant's own computer, and equally available 24/7. For adequate service to be guaranteed to each participant as described, and at the same time be cost-effective under heavy duty demand loads (while clearly without much appeal to the public at large), it would be unsuited as an open speculative venture. The dynamics of the infrastructure need to be determined in advance, and it is highly unlikely that any opportunity will follow for interested parties to join after the fact. If the idea appeals to you, please contact us to register your interest at the earliest opportunity. (The present email delivery service will continue unperturbed by this, of course, and should remain adequate for lightweight and casual users in appropriate deployments.) Emails should be sent to UpicT R-&-D with a subject of "UpicT 3".

The UpicT team brings you a solid practical background in accounting, software, and general business design and developement, together with post-graduate levels of formal qualification. The analytical knives which helped cut through weighty layers of obfuscation to reveal the essentials, and only the essentials, were honed on the stone of Philosophy -- an approach now repeated day in day out within the engine of UpicT itself -- while a dissertation on Artificial Intelligence, and the wider principles of modern Computer Science were decidely constructive in realising the unearthed revelations. Ground level business acumen has managed to keep the project firmly pegged down to a practical and non-theory-laden base. In short, UpicT -- The Unearth Pictorial Toolkit -- draws on a healthy mix of diverse proven skills, and has channelled them to meet the expectations of intelligent investors who value their time.

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A license will usually be required for any commercial usage of or copying of the UpicT concept, software, or design, in whole or in part, with contractual obligations on the licensee for the appropriateness of such usage towards maintaining the integrity of UpicT. But in some cases permission will be sufficient. Please write with details to upict-copyright in the first instance.