Re: Aisleriot/Blackjack cards

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Aike Reyer wrote:
> Thomas H.P. Andersen schrieb:
> > If we want to keep bonded I think we should try to convince an artist
> > to look at improving the faces. They don't look too good IMO and they
> > are the main reason I prefer anglo over bonded. (Ultimately I would
> > still prefer something along the lines of seans work to replace the
> > current cards at some point in the future)
>
> One reason why bonded is so much faster, is that the faces are bitmaps.
> So I thought I give it a try and substituted the faces in anglo.svg with
> bitmaps.
> Although I use a higher resolution than bonded (213px vs 91px), it renders
> about 1.3 times faster than bonded (using Freecell with
> -DINSTRUMENT_LOADING).
>
> And though it does not scale as nicely as pure anglo, the lower quality is
> almost unnoticeable on screen (or at least to my eyes). The file size is
> about the same as anglo.svg.
>
>
> I hope, that it is still ok to send attachments to this list and attach
> the file.
> Notice that I use colors from the tango palette in the attached version.
> Might be an idea to change this in anglo/gnomangelo. Though the "black"
> looks a bit pale. What do you think?
> I can easily create different versions.
>
> If you are interested I can do the same with the faces in gnomangelo.

Great! That pretty much settles the performance issues. Could you also do 
the same for gnomangelo?

 - Andreas