[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Prettier (?) stars

[Jason Harris]

Thanks Mederic.

BTW, note that this shouldn't be any slower than the original star
images, despite the fact that drawing them is more complicated.  Star
images are cached and blitted to the screen.  So constructing the star
image cache will be a bit slower, but that is a very rare operation.

Jason


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Médéric Boquien <mboquien at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have made a patch which modifies the aspect of stars in the "Classic" and
> "Moonless night" colour schemes. In summary, instead of drawing a coloured
> annulus around the central white circle, i use the change the saturation and
> the transparency in function of the radius, so it looks a bit more smooth and
> blends with the background. The attached patch is included if you want to play
> and if you find a better transfer function for the saturation and the
> transparency channels. Note, it is not 100% clean, and i do not expect it to
> be committed yet. For the most impatient, i have also included a screenshot.
> What do you think of the new stars. Are they better? Worse? How could they be
> improved?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Médéric
>
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