Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!cs.umu.se!dvljrt From: dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Dynamic Hi-Res question Message-ID: <1991Apr23.174352.22285@cs.umu.se> Date: 23 Apr 91 17:43:52 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.umu.se (News Administrator) Organization: Dep. of Info.Proc, Umea Univ., Sweden Lines: 16 In article ia0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Indu Tara Agarwal) writes: > >Also, I have a question about Dynamic Hi-res itself. I understand how you >set up the copper lists to select the 'optimal' 16 color palette for each >scan line, but here's something that puzzled me: > >What if you drew, say, 100 1-pixel wide vertical lines, and intended to make >each one a different color? How could this mode (purported to display all >4096 colors with no color fringing) possibly display that w/out fringing? > >And remember, I mean 1-pixel wide so no tricky dithering is acceptable. > No, this is not possible. Just as you say, there are 16 colors per scanline so you naturally can't have 100 different ones! /$DR.HEX$