Effects
To avoid attribute clash, static graphic displays had to be constructed with care. Finely-detailed color graphics were impossible, as color could only be applied in 8×8 pixel blocks. Careful design could achieve impressive results, as could synchronizing color changes to the refresh rate of the display — usually a television set.
However, animated displays were more difficult — a distinct drawback in a machine whose primary use was playing video games. If just one pixel in an 8×8 block was recolored because a moving part of the display touched it, the entire block would change color. Thus detailed moving graphics caused large ugly fringes of rapidly changing colors to follow them around.
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Famous quotes containing the word effects:
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
“The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of—career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Oh that my Pow’r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)