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- From: maple@peregrine.eglin.af.mil (Raymond C Maple)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: Xor line drawing
- Message-ID: <34746@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 14:58:45 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- In a previous message I wrote:
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- >I have used this with no problems on TG, base indigo, and VGX graphics.
- >On Elan graphics, however, the dithering done in double buffer mode causes
- >the second draw (restoration to original color) to produce slightly different
- >colors for some background colors, resulting in some very ugly artifacts.
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- To which Antti Miettinem replied:
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- >How about using dither(DT_OFF) while drawing xor-lines?
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- I am happy to report that this does indeed eliminate the ugly artifacts. I also
- tried calling shademodel(FLAT), since the man page for dither() states that it only
- takes place when gouraud shading is in effect. This did NOT clean up the problem.
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- - Thanks for the suggestion!
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- Raymond C. Maple
- WL/MNAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Section
- Eglin AFB, FL
- maple@peregrine.eglin.af.mil
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