Re: Simplified processing of image and rgbimage plots

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> Do you really mean to remove the term->image() routine??? Definitely no, the
>> processing is several orders of magnitude slower ... try to draw a 1024x1024
>> image with pm3d and with image. Terminal-specific term->image() is the
>> proper way.
>
> It may seem counter-intuitive, but in fact the RGB polygon processing is
> just as fast as the term->image() processing, at least for gd.trm.

Are not ther any "aliasing" or "Moire" problems?

> And rendering speed.  gv is very slow with the filled polygons.

For performance reasons, I guess term->image() is a must. It was implemented 
for exactly this reason, after all.

BTW, there are some other screen terminals (OS/2, Windows) which may or may 
not be double-buffered, and where many-polygon approach instead of image 
makes them very very slow -- and even for a window redraw by the window 
manager.

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