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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Chunky Pixels vs. Bitplanes (was: Chunky Chip Set...)
- Message-ID: <paulk.31gk@terapin.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 18:51:30 GMT
- References: <jbickers.0mdh@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 33
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- > Perhaps you could divert your energies to showing how planar
- > displays compete with the specific examples that people have
- > mentioned already?
-
- Why should I? When did I claim they did?
-
- What I've been trying to suggest to you is that your case for the
- wonderfulness of chunky displays, though it started out valid, is now
- being overblown way past what's realistic, and furthermore (speaking
- of energies needing to be diverted) you are coming across as a foam-
- mouthed lunatic instead of a reasonable person. CALM DOWN ALREADY!
-
- Chunky is NOT pure wonderfulness with zero disadvantages. It has
- valid strengths but you are claiming something more like faultless
- perfection with none of the planar disadvantages, when in fact chunky
- has some quite similar shortcomings when word length != screen depth.
- And you never even consider any case other than using ar
- display of the exact depth that chunky handles best. Clearing the
- top two bitplanes ... jeez!
-
- > One thing that is becoming noticeable here is that a couple of the
- > people who are trying to say that chunky pixels are not better than
- > planes for the given operations were _also_ involved in the
- > hardware manual thread, on the side of those who don't care about
- > hitting the hardware directly. In my view, they're blowing their
- > credibility with this stuff about planes.
-
- Trying to sweep the legitimate shortcomings of your alternative under
- the rug, and ranting like a newly converted communist revolutionary,
- don't help YOUR credibility.
-
- It's simple. If chunky was universally better in every way, then no
- planar systems would have been built. Think about it.
-