[Gimp-developer] Marching Ants successor?

[Gordon Edwards <gledwards amnet net au>]

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>Presuming unlimited GPU power, how should unfilled shapes/selection
>outlines be displayed?
>

The noisy selection in <noisy-217b.gif> did not offer any real
delineation -- although most people would not manually work right up
close to the border, but that's not the point.

Is it possible to shadow (darken) the _unselected_ portion of the image?

Gordon.