Color/Advanced Graphics Features Brainstorming


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Color windows
Color fonts
Move windows from b/w to color display?
Multi-monitor Suns?
Sun color hardware
	CG2
	CG3
	CG4
	CG5
	Special graphics accelerators
Need separate fonts for fore, backgrounds colors (versus font or stream attribute)
Color bitmaps will eat up 32M space quickly (windows, fonts) 
	Remote bitmaps (outside of 32M address space - can't save in sysout)
New Opcodes
	2&3 D geometric transforms (avoids floating pt. boxing)
	BitMapBit
	TEdit Color
	Your suggestion here
Cleanup texture/shade/color controversies
Application support
	raytracers
	renderers
Application type
	User Interface
	2 D
	3 D
	Animation
	Image analysis
Other I/O devices
	film recorders
	color hardcopy
		InterPress
		Postscript
		Others?
	scanners
	digitizing tablet
File I/O of various formats
	AIS
	Others?
Better quality graphics capabilities
	contour fonts
	better polygon capabilities (e.g. "woodgrain texture fill")
Speed requirements?  (often need to process *lots* of pixels)
Can logout, restart from color screen?  Are there multiple resolutions (multiple BPP) of color?
Integration with other modules
	Rooms
	ScreenPaper
	ACE (animation editor)
	Notecards
	LOOPS
	TEdit
	Sketch
Compatibility with Medley1.1 sysouts, data structures
Kickstarting (integrated w. current scripts (ldeether -c calls ldecolor?)
Light weight high quality bitmap editor
Resolution independent streams
Postscript interpreter
Network ray tracer
Immediate bare-bones capabilities
(versus) Not so immediate richer capabilities
Flood fill

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