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From: jonah@amos.ucsd.edu (Jonah Stich)
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Subject: Re: 3200 Paint Programs
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In article <448@fawlty.towers.oz> johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean) writes:
>I really like the idea of using a greyscale palette for all but the 14
>(I do not understand why this is not 15) palettes around the cursor.

Well, if you use one palette for the greyscale, and another for the tools,
then you only have 14 left. I'm probably going to change this, as I've thouoght
of some better ways to do it. Probably when I eleasse it, there'll be 15 
(hell, it's easier to center, right? :)

>I do not know why I never thought of it.

I suppose you're just not a genius with an IQ of 3 billion, like myself. :)
Actually, Scott Gentry from AOL gets credit for this one--he suggested it to
me. (Oh, and BTW, I think Scott DOES have an ID of 3 billion! :)

>However, it is still very limiting because you must choose the colors in
>each palette yourself. When will someone write a paint program that lets
>you choose any color from all 4096 colors, and dynamically update the
>palettes as required to get the best possible results.
>I do not want to choose colors for each palette - I want the software to
>take care of it for me.
>If I choose to paint in light blue on a scanline that has no light blue
>in its palette, I want it to either add light blue to the palette, or
>translate my light blue into the nearest color in the palette.
>
>These two concepts need to be integrated to form the ultimate IIGS paint
>program. Looks like I'll be waiting a while yet.

John, one of the reasons I at least started talking about Paint 3200 so far
before it was ready was to get ideas. If you think that these features are
necessary for the ultimate paint program, I'll put them in! I just need to
know exactly what it is you have in mind. I've beeen toying with a function
for the flood fill that will find the colsest match to the selected color
on every line, so that filled areas will seem to be a large chunk of the same
color, rather than a strange multi colored blob (This can lead to some of the 
worst streaking you've ever seen, as the program tries it's hardest to find
a match in a palette where there just isn't one, but that's beside the point.)
Or do you mean a function that adjusts all 199 other palettes to be as close as
they can to the one you're playing with. How exactly would this work? I'd
love to make this the best porgram it can be, but I need more description than 
this.

>John MacLean.

Jonah Stich
jonah@amos.ucsd.edu
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