Do bitblt function codes work?

[Amos Shapir amos@nsof.co.il]

In your message of Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:53:56 GMT you wrote:

> > From: nsof.co.IL!amos (Amos Shapir)

> > On a PC with vga and "out of the box" drivers, the following program
> > generates only 4 distinct images, not 16.  It seems somewhere along
> > the line to/from the bitblt server, the lower two bits of the function
> > codes get hardwired to (binary)10.

> This is correct behavior.  Since you're drawing the line with code 
> 		segment(d, Pt(mid.x, r.min.y), Pt(mid.x, r.max.y), ~0, t);
> using drawing function 0<=t<=15, you might expect 16 different
> results.  But since the source function is the constant ~0, not a general
> value, symmetries fold up and the number of results is reduced.
> The possible answers are 0->0, 0->1, 1->0, and 1->1.  It is not
> the full matrix of possibilities because the source is a single value (1).

> For related information, see the comment in /sys/src/libgnot/gsegment.c.

I have read this comment, and gather that this behavior is a feature;
but I still can't see the rationale behind it.  How can the "value"
parameter be anything but a constant?

I tried all values, and I still can't find any combination that ANDs
the pixel values of two bitmaps; e.g. in the given example, draw just
the part of the segment which falls within the disc.

Happy new year, anyway
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