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Bitmap Graphics: Why BitBlt is so successful – by Pike, Guibas, Ingalls (1984) [pdf]
- panic 11y agoThis is interesting historically, but as the article points out, none of this stuff really works on modern RGB displays that use integer intensities rather than 1-bit values.
- gaius 11y agoHaters gonna hate
- theoh 11y agoIt's the fact that there are three components that causes the problem, not integers per se, since even one bit RGB (for a total of 8 colours) would not allow xor tricks.
- dekhn 11y agoYou can think of Porter Duff compositing as an upprojection of bitblt to multidimensional, continuous space.