I really liked this tutorial cited by Mike, so I contacted the author for any others he might have. Remon (the author) pointed me to his page of tutorials, and noted that the link I had was to an older version.
Here is the link to the page with other tutorials, including the latest version of the one previously cited: http://remon.mojomedia.at/ (under "Tutorials") Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: Catharsis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] JAVA2D-INTEREST Digest - 15 Oct 2003 to 16 Oct > 2003 (#2003-29) > > > At 12:00 AM 10/17/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >2) Why do you need translucency to fade to gray? > >If all you are trying to do is fade to gray or black, just > >modify the pixel values of an opaque source image and copy > >that image to the screen (or back buffer). I don't see why > >you would need to do this is a translucent operation at all > >(maybe I'm missing something here...). If you can do this as > >an opaque operation, you will completely avoid the bottlenecks > >I talk about above. Note that your implementation of this > >could require that you manually read each pixel, you will want > >that image to be unaccelerated for the reasons above > > Nice tutorial here in regard to color / pixel techniques: > http://www.geocities.com/remonvv/tutorial-1-2-1.html > > Best, > --Mike > > Egregious > "Spiritual renewal through music for those outside the heard." > http://www.egregious.net/ > > ============================================================== > ============= > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, > send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
