ctpa.md

Color Ternary-Packed Art

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Whats the difference from normal T.P.A.?

Instead of 9 pixels of a 3-color palette, Color ternary Packed art uses 3, 3-trit RGB color values directly, to output 3 pixels at once.

This doesn't work in curses does it?

Does not work in curses, whatsoever!

Mainly, its due to the lack of any non-color data that can be properly displayed.

basic howto:

Assembly:

setreg1;+---+---+
iowrite1;>io.cpack

SSTNPL:

cpack *+---+---+
cmulpk +++---+++;---+++---;+++000+++
clinepk +++---+++;---+++---;+++000+++
cmulpk +++---+++;---+++---;+++000+++;+++000+++
clinepk +++---+++;---+++---;+++000+++;+++000+++

clinepk, like cmulpk, is a handy batch-macro for fixed 27 color ternary packed art values. The difference is it outputs a newline automatically.

Examples?

You should check colorpack in DEMOS. it also has examples of SSTNPL's cmulpk and clinepk commands.

compression

a compressed variant is available via gfxcon -cprle(n).

Needs to be decoded via algorithm. comppack in demos features a basic decoder.