On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, delire wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:23:37 +0100 Yves Degoyon ydegoyon@free.fr wrote:
i'm rather interested in a text rendering engine that could be integrated in PDP/PiDiP
hmm i agree, i suppose aalib can only give us a design framework for translating colour sapce in to text. however i haven't seen any direct or --realtime manipulation of the text in aalib, so this would be something that PDP/PiDiP seems better suited to anyway. christ it would be nice. funny it hasn't cropped up in other projects already.. < nudge >
Well, GridFlow already has got aalib support in the last release, and the cvs edition of GridFlow now allows more than plain aalib output: you may freeze the display while still rendering in-buffer (option autodraw), you may force display of a frame (option draw), you may take the buffer out of the @out object (option dump), in which case it comes out of outlet 0 in a "TA" color model (one ascii text channel, one attribute channel). That kind of picture may be sent back to the @out object by inlet 0, same as where greyscale pictures would normally enter, except that since they are already in "TA" they need not be converted to it.
I have written a custom object (in Ruby) that performs an effect specific to "TA" pictures, namely, replacing of certain letters in a picture by sentences taken from specified files and sockets. It's used in one of our patches for a show. This one will not be part of the GridFlow distribution though.
________________________________________________________________ Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju