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Re: [MiNT] Cool new AES features
Hello,
Exploitation of truecolor graphics in a similar way to xgem with
gradients and such.
Good consistent gradients are a major issue especially when you want to
take into consideration things like number of colors available and
reduce the chance of seeing "bars" of color.
XGEM already provides this feature for ages... And it's fast (have you
ever tried ERS softwares for example ?). No need to have a powerfull
graphic card and an optimised VDI with gradient support to do what XGEM
does.
A direct link with snapshot for information:
http://ers.europe-shareware.org/atari/find_it.html
BTW, we can still state that "gradient feature" is only available in true
color mode (this is the limitation i've done in that kind of program to
avoid problem of modification of palet).
Truecolor desktop backgrounds in many image formats doing whatever
conversions necessary via zview.
I don't know if zview is the right idea.
replace "zview" by "zview plugin" and you have the idea.
IIRC, MyAES uses zview plugin to load JPEG files.
There are lots of graphics
libraries capable of manipulating a huge number of file formats and
doing smooth resizing.
pnglib, jfiflib, tifflib... abracadabra and zview plugin are there !
I'd prefer the OS to support it so that there is
I like very much the modular approach: a set of plugin specialised for a
special file format. Then, if you have a 68060 processor, you can get the
plugin optimized for your processor. If you have a great graphic card with
built-in JPEG codec, you can built a plugin optimized for it... and all
the software will benefit of this !
best regards,
Arnaud.