http://www.sgi.com/tech/ImageVision/overview.html (Silicon Surf Promotional CD, 01/1995)
The ImageVision Library
The ImageVision LibraryTM (IL) from Silicon Graphics is an object-oriented, extensible toolkit for creating, processing, and displaying images on all Silicon Graphics workstations. The library provides image processing application developers with a robust framework for managing and manipulating images.
Today's rapidly advancing hardware technology often requires software developers to rewrite their code for each new release. IL is explicitly designed to provide a constant software interface to changing hardware. Applications you write today will run on all future generations of machines, requiring few or no changes. With IL, Silicon Graphics can continue to bring you the benefits of next-generation hardware while giving you all the advantages of a stable but growing software environment.