From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!djb Newsgroups: net.graphics Title: Re: resolution questions Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3062 Posted: Mon Jan 31 09:31:45 1983 Received: Wed Feb 2 03:43:01 1983 References: <842@ucf-cs.UUCP> I've seen anti-aliased lines drawn on a 640x480 display and they looked pretty good. This technique has been applied to text displays with similar success. Unfortunately, you must have a large color look-up table and a broad color palette to be able to produce the subtle shades required for anti-aliased displays (graphics or text). As for hardcopy, take a look at some of the 300 dot/inch laserprinters. They do an excellent job with text and graphics, although clearly not as sharp as a typesetter. We currently use a Versatec for document prepration and are reasonably happy with it (you're right though, on some output it does look coarse), and expect our soon-to-arrive laserprinter to be more than enough for our needs. Gee Whiz department: I saw the Pixel graphics display terminal at UNICOM. It has a 8.5"x11" white phosphor display with a resolution of 1728x2180. The text and lines they drew were something else... David Bryant Bell Labs Columbus, OH (614) 860-4516 (cbosg!djb)