****************************************************************************** ** ** ** MultiColor ** ** (C) 1995 by Stefan Kost ** ** ** ****************************************************************************** 1.0 What is MultiColor ? ------------------------ MultiColor (MC) is a new technique to simulate displays with many colours. 1.1 How many colours ? ---------------------- Following table shows the number of possible colors. \ | | | --\ typ | OCS | AGA | ---\ | ECS | GFX-Cards | res --\ | 0 | 1 | ------------+---------+-----------+ ehb 236x276 | 4096/16 | - | low 236x276 | 1331/11 | 614125/85 | hi 472x276 | 216/ 6 | 614125/85 | shi 944x276 | - | 614125/85 | ------------+---------+-----------+ res : This shows the maximum resolution. typ : What machine is used. colours : How many colours can be displayed. 1st number : maximum different colours 2nd number : number of shades of every colour part (r/g/b) 1.2 I want to see that ! ------------------------ There are some small progis to demonstrate the system. All prgramms have two parameters : typ 0=OCS/ECS 1=AGA/GFX-Cards res e=ehb l=low h=hi s=shi * MC_Bleed mc_bleed typ res [edge1] [edge2] [edge3] [edge4] This program generates colourshades with four edges. To alternate the colours you can enter the colour for every edge as number (12 bit-number). * MC_PicView mc_bleed typ res name [red-offset] [green-offset] [blue-offset] PicView displays you 24-bit pictures. Therefore you have to scale the picture to the rigth resolution and to convert the picture to raw-format (AdPro : sculpt-saver). Name the 3 Files as .r, .g and .b. The last thre parameters are for colourcontrol and the value should be between -1.0 and 1.0. A positive number makes the part brighter and a negative one darker. * MC_Plasma mc_plasma typ res [chaos] This one generates the well known plasmas but more colourful. The chaosvalue controls the smoothness. Smaller values -> smoother pictures. Bigger values -> more chaotic pictures. This value should be between 0.0 and 1000.0 (default 20.0) * MC_Spots mc_spots typ res [spotlist] This progie draws gradient filled balls on the screen. The positions and colours are from a file (some examples are included). 1.3 For what purpose is this ? ------------------------------ MC could be used for true-colour previews, because you have no palette restric- tions - every part of the colour lays between 0.0 and 1.0. MC does the trans- lations for you. Another idea is to use it for a game (it`s not slower). The advantage is that this game will works on all amigas, because the gfx will automatically conver- ted. 1.4 Please contact me ! ----------------------- Please contact me and let me know, what you think about it. I will not spend very much time with developing this, because the is enough to do on my other projects (SoundFX/FractalUniverse). Here is my address : Stefan kost Holbeinstrasse 1 04229 Leipzig GERMANY email: kost@imn.th-leipzig.de -eot-