Author:	Wayne Rasband (wayne@codon.nih.gov)
History:	2001/02/21: First version 2001/12/17: 640x480 window, no drawImage scaling 2001/12/21: Displays frames generated per second in parentheses 2002/09/30: Pixels are produced and drawn in the same thread 2002/10/01: Displays FPS in status bar
Source:	Plasma_.java
Installation:	Download Plasma_.class to the plugins folder and restart ImageJ.
Description:	This is a plugin version of the "Plasma2" applet at      https://rsb.info.nih.gov/plasma2/ It continously generates and displays images and displays the frame rate in the ImageJ status bar. Here are some test results in frames per second: 109    P3/400, Win95, JDK 1.4.1beta 100    P3/400, Win95, JDK 1.3.1  49    P3/400, Win95, JRE 1.1.8  42    P3/400, Win95, Microsoft Java  36    PPC "G4"/400/, Mac OS 9, MRJ 2.2.5  26    PPC "G4"/400/, Mac OS X, v10.2.1 Set 'sync' to false and recompile and to use separate unsynchronized threads for image generation and image display. On Mac OS X and Linux, this causes images to be produced at a higher rate than they are displayed, resulting in jerkiness and indicating a threading problem. This plugin and ImageJ generate and display images in essentually the same way, with the exception that ImageJ always uses separate unsynchronized threads. ImageJ would run a lot faster on OS X if someone at Apple could figure out how to make this plugin run faster.

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