[MWForum]turning teachers on to MW - the graphics are great!
Steve Robson
mwforum@lists.mathcats.com
Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:26:45 +0000
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<P>More about graphics</P>
<P>Sorry Marian, there's beena delay here, my first response didn't make it; here goes again.</P>
<P>The Gif background may be white or clear. If you copy from the internet and paste it into the shape centre, you will need to fill the background of the sprite in with 'transparent paint' from within MW anyway. It's just easier when the background is all one colour. Gifs can be animations, so you can unpack them (using a GIF animator) and paste them, one by one, into the shape centre to use as animated turtles.</P>
<P>Graphic Filetypes.</P>
<P>This is a big question, but very, very briefly, here goes:</P>
<P>JPEGs have 16 million colours, can be compressed without becoming visibly too bad to use and are great for photo's and so on. If you paste, or insert a jpeg into MW (certainly early versions) you may notice some strange colours appearing.</P>
<P>GIFs are much smaller (sizewise), have a maximum of 256 colours, can be animated and can have transparent areas.</P>
<P>PICTs are native Mac format pictures.</P>
<P>The above is just a very quick answer, you can get loads more if you need it from<BR><BR><A href="http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/graphicformats/">http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/graphicformats/</A></P>
<P>Hope this helps</P>
<P>Regards</P>
<P>Steve</P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>From: Marian Rosen <MBROSEN@BRICK.NET>
<DIV></DIV>Reply-To: mwforum@lists.mathcats.com
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<DIV></DIV>Subject: Re: [MWForum]turning teachers on to MW - the graphics are great!
<DIV></DIV>Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:49:56 -0600
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<DIV></DIV>About those gif files... Is the background white or clear?
<DIV></DIV>Also, could you give me the concise differences between a .jpg .gif and .pict
<DIV></DIV>I kind of know this, but not well enough to use it to my advantage.
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<DIV></DIV>On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 02:49 AM, Steve Robson wrote:
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<DIV></DIV>>...and another thought! If you want some good graphics for turtle
<DIV></DIV>>shapes, you can search the 'net (with appropriate care) and locate a
<DIV></DIV>>web page graphic which can be copied and pasted to the shape centre.
<DIV></DIV>>The tumbnails in Google image search are ofetn a useful size, and if
<DIV></DIV>>the search is made for gif files only, the background is often
<DIV></DIV>>white.
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