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# WKMC v0.3 - ⌐1995 by WK-Artworks #
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Examples
3. Suggestions ?
4. Author/Status
1. Introduction
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WKMC is a fast truecolor-emulation for 8-bit displays. The idea
came from Stefan Kost's "Multicolor"-system. Because this program
changes the pixel-aspect and is terribly slow I decided to write my own.
(I started a Paint-program and tried out some dither-methods.
Result: The simplest method was the best one.)
Advantages:
-pixel-aspect and image-size are not changed
-high speed
-more visible colors:
-every color-channel (RGB) has a diffent number of shades ("eye-sensitive")
-all 256 color-registers are used
-no flickering (uses Multiscan)
-rgb-values are in the usual range 0..255 (not 0.0..1.0)
Because the rows are created using a more or less tricky
algorithm and copied into the bitmap directly you can't use
WKMC on gfx-board's.
2. Examples
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Three examples are supplied:
* plasma: algorithm taken from Stefan Kost's archieve (needs 68030+/FPU)
Example:
plasma 32 (resolution 320x240)
->29 seconds
* ppmview: very fast ppm-viewer (needs 68030+)
Example:
image: 465x768, size: 1071375, processor: M68030 40Mhz
->5 seconds
* jpegview: very fast jpeg-viewer (needs 68030+) (no source-code supplied)
Example:
image: 704x1002, size: 176880, processor: M68030 40Mhz
->16 seconds
This program supports the new progressive-format - but
only color-jpeg's are displayed correctly.
jpegview uses some libjpeg-code created by the
Independent JPEG Group.
3. Suggestions
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Because this program only uses trivial algorithms it's pure FREEWARE.
But I'm interested in receiving mc-related suggestions or programs.
How about a mpeg-player using this technique ?
4. Author/Status
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(i) Other projects (+=dead):
Dust, makeHaze, mesh2tddd, mdar(+),
iff2eps, YACPro, OPlot(+), CAGS(+), WKMC, ...
(ii) Address:
For suggestions, registering, ... contact me at:
Andreas Maschke
Zenkerstra▀e 5
06108 Halle/Saale
Germany
Phone: ++49 (0)345/5170331
EMail: epgbc@cluster1.urz.Uni-Halle.DE
(iii) Status:
Because this program only uses trivial algorithms it's
pure FREEWARE.
But I'm interested in receiving mc-related suggestions
or programs.