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- From: andreas@atlas.physchem.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Haug)
- Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
- Subject: Re: Graphic format
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:08:58 GMT
- Organization: IPTC, University of Tuebingen, Germany
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- pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall) writes:
- >To be honest - I'm going to have _real_ problems dealing with any form
- >of bit-mapped colour graphics on the Atari, as people will want to use
- >the higher resolutions for reading, and these only provide 4 or 2
- >colours! Even the lowest res allows only 16 colours on-screen, and I
- >really don't want to get into complicated dithering techniques, so I
- >think everyone should be aware that a graphics standard might limit
- >the systems for which the guide is workable. (Mind you, if it's only
- >the Atari that's the problem everyone might just turn around and say
- >"so what?" - but I don't think this is a healthy attitude!)
-
- Well, the problem exists for many other systems, too. Just think of those
- wo are commited to ASCII-Terminals. However, I think we should not limit
- out views to what is available to anyone right now. If we did, the concept
- of a "network guide" would be obsolete, too. I've been an Atari user for
- years (since 4 years ago), too. But belive me: in a few years' time, no
- one will have problems displaying 256 colors (or shades of grey).
-
- The real question - imho - is how to integrate the pictures into the
- Guide without rendering it impossible for some people to use. I would
- suggest some kind of "reference" which goes into the article. The
- pictures could be requested/loaded on demand only.
-
- >Some kind of vector graphic system might be better - but this wouldn't
- >allow any nice scanned images etc.
-
- ...and would need a great deal more work to implement than pixel-images.
-
- andreas.
-
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