VGX vs. PI Shading: Dithering
Marc Andreessen
andreess at mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu
Fri May 31 08:25:21 AEST 1991
In article <9105232209.AA01931 at snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> devans at SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA writes:
> It just hit me that the cause was the fact that PIs have only 24
>bitplanes. So, when I used double buffering, I really got 12 planes
>per buffer. Then the pipeline dithered to make the colours look OK.
>I have no idea how many planes the VGX has (I'd be interrested in
>knowning, though...), but I'm sure it would have 48....so it could
>do full 24-bit double-buffering. That would explain the "soft" vs.
>"hard" look
> This seems too simple...am I right in my assumption?
Yup... this is true on IBM RS/6000 24-bit boards also (12 bits/buffer
with dithering).
Marc
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