Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lll-winken!snll-arpagw!paolucci From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: graphics chips ideas Message-ID: <208@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Date: 12 Aug 88 05:05:30 GMT References: <0Wz-V=Au8k-083IFce@andrew.cmu.edu> <1515@pembina.UUCP> Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore Lines: 39 In article <1515@pembina.UUCP> brant@pembina.UUCP (Brant Coghlan) writes: >I think Miles has the right idea. Allow windows to be opened with various >degrees of opaqueness. The application running underneath would still be >visable so the user could be receiving info from both programs. Imagine this >: you are displaying a digitized or raytraced picture and you want to look >at the CAD description of it, your engineering notes, or a structural analysis >of what ever you are displaying, so you open a transparent window on top of >the picture. You could see important differences and make changes accordingly. >You could open a drawing program in a transparent window and sketch an outline >or addition to the original picture, without touching the original. > > CBM please include such a feature in V1.5 (1.4 would be even better). >-Brant >-----Opaque Windows: the way of the future------- >-- > Brant Coghlan (403) 487-3619 ...{ubc-vision,sask,ihnp4}!alberta!brant > Dept. of Comp. Science, 615 GSB, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada > Having the capability of opening up transparent windows (and transparent screens) would allow one to write a terminal program that fully emulated some of the Tektronix 4100 and 4200 series terminal which use two screens, one for graphics and one for alphanumeric communication. (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) (FILLER) -- -+= SAM =+- "the best things in life are free" ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov