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- From: rmh@taligent.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
- Subject: Re: Code for drawing a sprite desired.
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:40:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.222055.342@midway.uchicago.edu>, grass@cs.uchicago.edu
- (Joshua Grass) writes:
- >
- > Actually, sprite is not the correct term, (What is that from, TI 99's?) what
- > the new equivalent of what you are doing is called is an icon.
-
- No, I think he means "sprite". An image that moves or "floats" across a
- background, like (say) a small picture of a spaceship flying above a landscape.
- An "icon" in Mac terminology is a square bitmap (color or black and white) of a
- certain size, for which the system software has optimized routines for storing,
- handling, and drawing. Icons are not necessarily a good way to implement a
- sprite. The recent postings about offscreen drawing techniques are the way to
- go.
-
- -- Rick Holzgrafe, a member of the Taligentsia
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