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.


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard