alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg) (10/17/88)
The NeXT machine has two bits per pixel. This provides 0%, 33%, 66% and 100% values. It also has some sort of alpha channel, which is provided for full screen dissolves, a feature that was demonstrated at the introduction, but not noted by Jobs, because he seemed to specifically not mention any facts about the display, other than it has a million pixels. As for Display PostScript, you will find quickly that PostScript of any sort is slow at rasterizing characters, let alone anti-aliasing them. There is no fashion of anti-aliasing in Display PostScript, although it could be extended to do so (hopefully somebody will replace those slow character rasterizations while they are at it). I am particularly interested in playing with the machine. The Display PostScript is accessed in a nice clean method: Direct calls to each PS routine are done with parameter passing used. Also, something called pswrap provides the ability to roll special PostScript routines as follows: Routine (x,y : float; words: str); beginps x y moveto words show endps (Forgive the fact that I am pulling this out of memory. The developer notes are in my car...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Alexander M. Rosenberg - INTERNET: alibaba@ucscb.ucsc.edu - Yoyodyne - - Crown College, UCSC - UUCP:...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!alibaba- Propulsion - - Santa Cruz, CA 95064 - BITNET:alibaba%ucscb@ucscc.BITNET - Systems - - (408) 426-8869 - Disclaimer: Nobody is my employer - :-) - - - so nobody cares what I say. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Alexander M. Rosenberg - INTERNET: alibaba@ucscb.ucsc.edu - Yoyodyne - - Crown College, UCSC - UUCP:...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!alibaba- Propulsion - - Santa Cruz, CA 95064 - BITNET:alibaba%ucscb@ucscc.BITNET - Systems - - (408) 426-8869 - Disclaimer: Nobody is my employer - :-) - - - so nobody cares what I say. - -