[Coco] CoCoFEST! 2009 256-color slideshow (now dithered!)

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 10 January 2010, John W. Linville wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:20:38PM -0600, Christopher Hawks wrote:
>> John W. Linville said the following on 01/10/2010 05:36 PM:
>>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:23:18PM -0600, Steve Ostrom wrote:
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Linville"
>>>> <linville at tuxdriver.com>
>>>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 4:28 PM
>>>> Subject: [Coco] CoCoFEST! 2009 256-color slideshow (now dithered!)
>>>>
>>>>> So I learned how to dither images.  Now my 256-color slideshow looks
>>>>> a lot better...
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm9yB3xVfbs
>>>>>
>>>>> Enjoy!
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> John, when I view this on my Vista PC with broadband connection, I
>>>> see  static pictures that last about 15 seconds each with a flashing
>>>> border.  What am I missing?  What should I be seeing?
>>>
>>> That's exactly it.  It is a slideshow utilizing the 256-color composite
>>> artifacting mode.  There is no sound.
>>
>> 	The first picture looks great!! But, the flashing is way too annoying to
>> watch. Is that caused by the 256-color mode??
>
>No, I just cycle the border colors as an activity indicator as I load
>the pictures over the serial port.  Otherwise I figured people would
>ask why it just sat there doing nothing... :-)
>
>John
>
I'd slow the cycle down to just one full color cycle per load John.  The many 
kilohertz, non-synchronous cycle is very distracting.  The pix themselves are 
awesome IMNSHO.

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