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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: Why do the IBM BMPs look so awful?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.200820.7718@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:08:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.063736.7961@news.Hawaii.Edu> ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes:
- >Out of curiority, I downloaded the bga?bmp.zip files from
- >software.watson.ibm.com to see if anything would make a decent background for
- >my 1024x768x256 screen. They look really awful, like some sort of bad
- >impressionist art (not that impressionism is intrinsically bad ...). At 3/4
- >Meg apiece, I would expect something photographic in quality. What's the deal?
-
- odd, I have no problems with them. I'm using Joel Armengaud's
- 800x600x256 driver with my ATI Wonder, and they look fine. One
- particular shade of white comes out yellow, but that's probably do to
- certain palette colors being reserved by WPS.
-
- I regularly use either "Balloons.bga" or "yarn.bga" as my backdrop.
- They look just fine, although WPS stretch-blts them down to 800x600,
- making them look a bit grainy.
-
- >It occurs to me that these might only be 16-color images, but they are not
- >even decent 16-color dithers. If you've ever looked at lighthou.vga in your
- >os2\bitmap directory, it's the same effect ...
-
- No, they're 256-color images. Those balloons are much to detailed to
- be dithered.
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