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shadebob

noun

Etymology

From shade + bob. See bob (“blitter object, type of hardware sprite”).

  1. derived from bobben
  2. compounded as shadebob — “shade + bob”

Definitions

  1. A type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that…

    A type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that it blends with others but can be easily removed again by decrementing the colour value at each pixel.

    • If I made a shadebob routine, which ran 60Hz on PentiumIII 550Mhz on 320x200x8bit mode, would you be impressed?
    • Even on older hardware, the dithering is perfect. The effect is convincing. You can press your face up against the screen and see no edges, you can see wonderful curves and strange shapes out of shadebobs that are probably unintentional.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shadebob. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA