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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  simple animation
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Date: 24 Oct 90 04:44:34 GMT
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> What is the best (smoothest, fastest) way to do some simple animation
> using X11.R4 on a Sun3?

Use the Multi-Buffering extension, probably.

Next choice, either draw to a pixmap and copy it onto the screen or
draw using GXxor.

If you have only a small number of different sizes of circle, you may
find that it's faster to draw the circles once, into bitmaps, and then
blit those bitmaps around instead of drawing circles all the time.  (It
amounts to finding out whether draw-filled-circle is faster than
blit-bitmap or vice versa.)

					der Mouse

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