Re: Nobody likes BASICdraw

"Malcolm" <regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nobody likes BASICdraw.
Everybody hates it.

It has received the worst ratings of any recent graphics program on
freewarehome.
Not a single person has posted a routine for it.

What is wrong with my program?

I don't think there's anything wrong with it - and I rather like
BASIC; I've done some serious programming in QuickBASIC, for
example.

For me, what it lacks are commands to operate on entire regions.
Ways to apply an operation on every pixel within a region of a
bitmap (arbitrary shapes, or operations using a masking bitmap
would be great, but rectangles would do for a start).

Nowadays, images can be huge. (I frequently perform operations on
images in the 30-60 megapixel range, and hardly ever less than
9 MP.) Without optimized low-level routines to handle pixels in
bulk, processing such things is just too slow.

And, as another poster pointed out, there are a lot of tools
out there to deal with image processing. Many of them can be
programmed with plugins and macros to do almost anything. Some
are expensive (Photoshop), but many are free (Pixia is really
nifty).

All that said, though, I BASICdraw would be really useful for
teaching beginners about bitmap manipulations and basic graphic
algorithms.

-Wm






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