Having a jpeg decoder would be nice, but shouldn't be part of the "forth" system proper... if we get our own forth image format, we could convert all incoming images to it then just leave them that way. let the rest of the world write decoders for the forth image format for their own platforms. Any ideas on a forth image format? As Jeff Fox would say Chuck would say, you should tailor your image format to your application. If your application is "trading images over a heterogenous network", then the problem gets a lot cruftier, or else less efficient, than if we have one true Forth Machine, and can just compress the bits and bits that you would blast directly into the Forth Machines video memory. If the 25x ever gets manufactured, I plan to embed one in my HDTV, and let it drive it, then use another 25x as my personal machine, and when I want to do graphics, instead of having my 25x drive a bulky monitor, I'll send little bits of forth code over to be executed by the embedded HDTV driver. Doing cool graphics with computer monitors seems to take a hella lotta bandwidth. Jonathan On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:14:56PM -0400, Mark Slicker wrote:
I believe a colorForth operating system can deal everything we need to deal with, and can fit on a single floppy, source included. Jpeg is the most common image format, and I believe we need to at least have the capability to decode them.
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