Re: How do they do that?!?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Becaust that would require someone to write a gradient engine, which
hasn't been done yet.  Whereas the current implementation with pixmaps
required writing a single config file.

James.

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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Miles Lane wrote:

> > actualyl using a larger pixmap woudl use the same memry as the gradient
> > is turned intoa pixmap - if thre original image is bigger or smaller
> > the pixmap uses the same amount of ram - if the gradient is generated
> > by code the pixmap still uses the same amount of ram...
> 
> Is there a reason that generating gradients mathematically isn't 
> used instead?  Wouldn't is be faster and less grainy?
> 
> 	Miles
> 
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