bitmapped

Note that the iOS7 switch away from skeumorphism and bitmapped UI components does a lot to pave the path.

For one, the display wasn't bitmapped, it had a fixed character display with just 2 256-letter fonts.

These overlays can be true color, bitmapped, or palette based, kind of like DjVu.

Canvas * Bitmapped graphics * Immediate mode + Fast for simple things + Minimal drawing overhead - Interactivity has to be handled manually (e.g.

In the bad old days before ubiquitous color bitmapped displays, people used monochrome monitors that often used green on black or amber on black.

Yeah, back in the day the bitmapped display was so awesome.

Of course visuals need to be balanced against load speed, but using this kind of thing will be much smaller than doing everything with bitmapped graphics.

Look at the proportional fonts and bitmapped image!

And that's where the bitmapped fonts come in.

I like the look of Proggy, but it's bitmapped at 10px.

But the dominant mechanics have always been about composing a series of fixed-dimension bitmapped layers (outside some shoehorned not-quite-layers-but-actually-layers there's really no other kind of entity to work with).

XPM was one early way of doing that, allowing you to define bitmapped images in a static array of characters representing the pixel colours, and was a very neat hack.

I wish there's a way to simplify it all so that modern games can be made just as "simple" and intuitive as the old 2D bitmapped graphics.

An interesting example is "晩" / "晚", which has one more stroke in the Japanese variant, but it's situated in a location which makes both variants look pretty much identical (and in small bitmapped fonts, they are identical).

"The mouse cursor itself became a bitmapped image, and for the first time took the familiar diagonal-pointing arrow shape we know today, as well as morphing into other shapes depending on the task being performed." From ArsTechnica's article.