Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ddsw1!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 1024X800 Monitor Summary: Antialiased fonts Message-ID: <5446@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 10 Aug 88 07:11:05 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 42 eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky) writes: >In article <7200056@m.cs.uiuc.edu> hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP writes: >>The 2024 is actually a GREY-SCALE monitor. >1 bitplane gives you shades of >>grey. Using multiple colors (ie, greyscale) to make up an image, you could >>then have ANTIALIASED FONTS. With software to take advantage of this, the >>Amiga might turn into the envy of the desktop publishing world! >... > >The new color font standard *may* buy you this capability already... Uhh, as far as I know, it does. The beauty of anti-aliased fonts has to be seen to be believed. Do this simple experiment: hook up your amiga to your color TV. Now display 80 col text. Can you read the text. Probably, barely. Can you tell whct the font is ? probably not. Could you discern, say, Palatino from Times-Roman-Bold ? Not bloody likely. Now. Hook up a camera and aim it at a page of 80 col text. Notice how you can discern not only every character, but its easy to discern subtle differences in font style such as serif vs. sans-serif, or Palatine from Optima. Why ? It's those extra colours. I once had as an assignment the task of converting a 1K by 1K image into sometihng that could be displayed on a (ughh) PC, which meant 640x480. I compromised and set on 512x512. Reducing the 1Kx1Kx1 image to 512x512x1 looked, as you'd expect, wretched. HOWVER. Showing them a 512x512x2 version of the same thing, with anti aliasing blew their socks off. It convinced them to make the board with 2 bitplanes rather than 1. Naturally also, managament thought it was *thier* idea. To whoever decided to give the 2024 2 bitplanes: pure genius. This has the potential to be VERY significant. -- Who are these ones that would lead us now ? richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard