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Re: "marching ants" rubberband box [message #31977 is a reply to message #31972] Wed, 04 September 2002 18:16 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Marshall Perrin (mperrin+news@arkham.berkeley.edu) writes:
>
>> Perhaps one way to implement this in IDL would be via manipulation of the
>> color table - draw one line of two colors, and then alternate what those
>> colors are via the color table rather than redrawing. Of course this then
>> reduces the number of colors for the rest of your image by two.
>
> Oh my gosh, Marshall! You must have one of those 8-bit government
> computers, left over from the 1930's. The rest of us are using
> 24-bit color, I'm sure. :-)

You would not *believe* the number of old Sun boxes with wretched
video cards floating around in the average astronomy department.
Telescopes last for decades - why shouldn't computers do too?
*grumble*

- Marshall
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