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)