I know it's an old concept (circa 2001), but still intriguing nonetheless
a couple of good (and free) progs are
coagulaand the more recent
AVSynthesisa good spectral analysis prog for analyzing converted images is
spectrogram"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
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