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From: mccaugh@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Smart Pixels?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 00:40:14 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh    Oct 10 23:59:00 1989


 Does anyone know of a system with "smart" pixels? By that I mean pixels that
 can at least sense when they are being altered and convey that sensing to a
 procedure doing the altering. E.g., a line-drawing procedure would be sig-
 nalled if the line to be drawn passed through pixels already set to some
 status (such as color), in which case would refrain from drawing and return
 an error-code to the sender.

 Thanks for any help.

 Scott McCaughrin
 (mccaugh@s.cs.uiuc.edu)