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- > On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Anthony Jacques wrote:
- >
- > > (BTW. I have an idea about a proper fade that would be *much* faster than
- > > the one by Genie of Network Trash as seen all over the place...)
- >
- > You can always use a table of 64k words, with each colour representated
- > one step darker. You can then have every "real" colour refered to the
- > table and get quite fast (still far to slow) fade. It's alot faster than
- > getting the separate RGB values out and then put them back, but also uses
- > far to much memory.
-
- Well, the method that I've done in the 'pause' routine takes 1 AND, and 1
- SHIFT (and 2 MOVEs) per pixel to reduce to 50%. When I get time, I might
- try using a simular method for reducing to any percentage... I guess this
- would thrash the cache less than look-up tables...
-
- BUT this wont be in the next few days, as tommorrow, my Falcon is going off
- to System Sollutions for them to fit my FPU and FX-card! :-)
-
- > It's also possible to do hardware fading, but that bugs with TVs, VGAs
- > and RGB projectors.
-
- I heard of this a while ago, but haven't a clue how it works... but I only
- have access to sVGA and an old black and white TV, so it doesn't really
- affect me...
-
- Anthony
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