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- Subject: Re: Chunky Pixel Mode for Low End Chip Set?
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0m7s@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:58:39 PST
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- Quoted from <1992Dec28.000531.26783@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> by mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst):
- > In <jbickers.0m6w@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
-
- [About replacing pixels of one color with those of another]
-
- > No kidding. You are right that it is _easier_ with chunky pixels, but it
- > isn't necessarily slower. At some point memory bandwidth determines
-
- Yes it is. For a 320x200 screen it's a maximum of 64000 byte reads
- and writes with chunky pixels, supposing all pixels turned out to
- need replacing. How can you get better than that with planes?
-
- > >> Yep, drawing thin lines is a plus on chunky pixel architectures. Floodfills
- >
- > > Any kind of lines.
- >
- > Nope. When you start to make lines thicker than 1 pixel you have to
- > fill polygons which has some advantages on bitplanes.
-
- Any particular advantages? I can't think of any. If you want to
- draw a horizontal line to fill a shape, you don't have to mask off
- each end with chunky pixels. You do with bitplanes.
-
- > :) Hmm, the classic method is using Flood(). There's nothing that forbids
- > the graphics.library to access the hardware and use every optimization.
-
- And it will (or should) be faster with chunky pixels than with
- planes! Chunky pixels rule ok!
-
- > True. But the WritePixel() (noone will use WritePixel !) part is only a
- > small part of the rendering operation.
-
- Not in my limited experience.
-
- > exernal card. It is also quite impossible to mix different scan frequencies.
- > If your high-end graphics board does 1280x1024 you can't mix that with
- > native Amiga screens.
-
- Well, that kills that idea. :) Non-scrollable screens will be nice
- though, sort of like the switching between modes that PCs do, so
- that the different displays can share the monitor with the OS
- knowing about it, instead of a human having to flip a switch :).
-
- > Michael van Elst
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