raster

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But my goal is to provide true retro graphics, with scanline rendering and raster effects in its core.

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Quick take

To scan in parallel lines.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of raster gathered in one view.

verb

To scan in parallel lines.

noun

(computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

noun

(electronics) A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for raster.

verb

To scan in parallel lines.

noun

(computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

noun

(electronics) A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.

Example sentences

But my goal is to provide true retro graphics, with scanline rendering and raster effects in its core.

HyperLook Cellular Automata Machine, Happy Tool, The NeWS Toolkit, PizzaTool and Raster Rap developed by Don Hopkins.

We can combine vector graphics from different sources at different scales without losing any information—with raster graphics, things would get blurry.

So for anything that's not intrinsically raster (video, 3d rendering), RDP is certainly faster.

Are you saying that games based on raster-based 3d engines aren't beautiful?

Think about it as the difference between vector graphics and raster graphics.

Things get crazy when it switches from raster to vector at 1:40.

I fulling know I'm looking at a video game, in fact I found the raster lines reminiscent of classic arcade games.

Maybe you should also allow companies to upload raster logos?

I thought that too, but on the other hand it is not readily apparent where you'd get a good non-mercator map raster.

It doesn't help that my usual sandbox (Eigen) is column major by default, which is the wrong in-memory order for my raster-image trained brain to visualize.

+ When compiz was introduced again raster thought it was not a good idea to include it.

Quote examples

I hope next parts will address screen scrolling, sprite animation, and "raster effects".

But pixel art (at least "good" pixel art) is much harder to produce than vector art or unrestricted raster art, especially when it comes to animation (unless you are just rotating limbs, which is a "no-no" in pixel art rules).