gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac) (11/28/90)
Food for thought: I've just read about an interesting video chip called CEG in PC Week (I know bad for my health :-). However, this chip was very interesting, as it does anti-aliasing on the fly and costs about $20 in quantity. Reportedly the anti-aliasing techniques will give video output on VGA cards "...photographic quality, exceeding the resolution and clarity of a standard NTSC TV picture." Would a video card for the Amiga designed with this chip provide a similar increase in video quality?
mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) (12/01/90)
In article <1990Nov28.154730.226@dialogic.com> gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac) writes: >I've just read about an interesting video chip called CEG in PC Week. >It does anti-aliasing on the fly and costs about $20 >in quantity. Reportedly the anti-aliasing techniques will give video >output on VGA cards "...photographic quality, exceeding the resolution >and clarity of a standard NTSC TV picture." > >Would a video card for the Amiga designed with this chip provide a >similar increase in video quality? What this chip does is basically what the Amiga custom chip set has done from the start: allow dynamic reloading of the color lookup table as you display your image. Also, it has some builtin ALU's to do a linear blend of the pixel color with the existing pixel color under software direction. So whatcha got is a dynamic pallete like the Amiga except the PC pallete is 256 out of 16M as apposed to 32 out of 4096. A card could be built for the Amiga to utilize this chip but considering it is a non-standard display format, it is an image hack (like SHAM and dynamic Hi-Res), and the recent proliferation of frame buffer boards with zillions of colors; I see little reason to do it. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark Thompson | | mark@westford.ccur.com | | ...!{decvax,uunet}!masscomp!mark Designing high performance graphics | | (508)392-2480 engines today for a better tomorrow. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +