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3 Jul 2024 05:34:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Some ideas about SDL enhancements  
From: Ken
Date: 1 Apr 2003 20:48:06
Message: <3E8A4261.99A6515C@pacbell.net>
Warp wrote:
> 
> Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > Roll "sky_sphere" into "background". With the present name, too many
> > people mistake it for an object.
> 
>   Another handy feature for "background" would be support for a pigment
> (instead of the current support for a single color).
>   The pigment could be evaluated, for example, at <0,0,0> in the lower
> left pixel of the image and <1,1,0> at the upper right pixel. The
> functionality would be pretty similar to using the alpha channel (+ua),
> but instead of blending to transparent, the image would blend to the
> given pigment.
> 
>   One of the most useful applications for this would be to specify a bitmap
> for the background (which is often requested by people).

How would you contrain it to the view point of the camera?

-- 
Ken Tyler


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