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Computer Graphics Area-Fill Attributes: Setinteriorstyle (FS)

This document discusses different options for filling areas and applying attributes to text and markers in computer graphics. It describes how to set fill styles like hollow, solid, or patterned; choose fill and edge colors; select text fonts, colors, and styles; and set marker types and sizes. Functions like setInteriorStyle(), setInteriorColorIndex(), setTextFont(), and setMarkerType() are used to control these attributes programmatically.

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Computer Graphics Area-Fill Attributes: Setinteriorstyle (FS)

This document discusses different options for filling areas and applying attributes to text and markers in computer graphics. It describes how to set fill styles like hollow, solid, or patterned; choose fill and edge colors; select text fonts, colors, and styles; and set marker types and sizes. Functions like setInteriorStyle(), setInteriorColorIndex(), setTextFont(), and setMarkerType() are used to control these attributes programmatically.

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Computer Graphics

Lecture 12
Area-Fill Attributes: Options for filling a defined region include a choice
between a solid colour or a patterned fill and choices for the particular
colours and patterns. These fill options can be applied to polygon regions
or to areas defined with curved boundaries, depending on the capabilities
of the available package. In addition, areas can be painted using various
brush styles, colours, and transparency parameters.

Fill Styles: Areas are displayed with three basic fill styles: hollow with a
colour border, filled with a solid colour, or Wed with a specified pattern or
design. A basic fill style is selected in a PHIGS program with the function
setInteriorStyle(fs)
Values for the fill-style parameter f s include hollow, solid, and pattern (Fig.
4-18). Another value for fill style is hatch, which is used to fill an area with
selected hatching patterns-parallel lines or crossed lines--as in Fig. 4-19. As
with line attributes, a selected fill-style value is recorded in the list of
system attributes and applied to fill the interiors of subsequently specified
areas. Fill selections for parameter fs are normally applied to polygon
areas, but they can also be implemented to fill regions with curved
boundaries
Hollow areas are displayed using only the boundary outline, with the
interior colour the same as the background colour. A solid fill is displayed
in a single colour up to and including the borders of the region. The
colour for a solid interior or for a hollow area outline is chosen with

setInteriorColourIndex(fc)

where fill colour parameter fc is set to the desired colour code. A polygon
hollow fill is generated with a line drawing routine as a closed polyline.
Solid fill of a region can be accomplished with the scan-line procedures
discussed previously.

Other fill options include specifications for the edge type, edge width, and
edge colour of a region. These attributes are set independently of the fill
style or fill colour, and they provide for the same options as the line-
attribute parameters (line type, line width, and line colour). That is, we can
display area edges dotted or dashed, fat or thin, and in any available colour
regardless of how we have filled the interior.

Pattern Fill: We select fill patterns with


setInteriorStyleIndex (pi)
where pattern index parameter pi specifies a table position. For example,
the following set of statements would fill the area defined in the fillArea
command with the second pattern type stored in the pattern table

CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES: The appearance of displayed characters is


controlled by attributes such as font, size, colour, and orientation.
Attributes can be set both for entire character strings (text) and for
individual characters defined as marker symbols

Text Attributes: There are a great many text options that can be made
available to graphics programmers. First of all, there is the choice of font
(or typeface), which is a set of characters with a particular design style such
as New York, Courier, Helvetica, London, 'Times Roman, and various special
symbol groups. The characters in a selected font can also be displayed with
assorted underlining styles (solid, dotted, double), in boldface, in italics,
and in outline or shadow styles. A particular font and associated stvle is
selected in a PHIGS program by setting an integer code for the text font
parameter tf in the function
setTextFont (tf)
Font options can be made available as predefined sets of grid patterns or
as character sets designed with polylines and spline curves
Colour settings for displayed text are stored m the system attribute list
and used by the procedures that load character definitions into the frame
buffer. When a character string is to be displayed, the current colour is
used to set pixel values in the frame buffer corresponding to the
character shapes and positions. Control of text colour (or intensity) is
managed from an application program with
setTextColour (tc)
where text colour parameter tc specifies an allowable colour code

Marker Attribute: A marker symbol is a single character that can he


displayed in different colours and in different sizes. Marker attributes are
implemented by procedures that load the chosen character into the raster
at the defined positions with the specified colour and size
We select a particular character to be the marker symbol with
setMarkerType (mt)
where marker type parameter mt is set to an integer code. Typical codes
for marker type are the integers 1 through 5, specifying, respectively, a dot
(.) , a vertical cross (+), an asterisk(*), a circle, and a diagonal cross.
Displayed marker types are centred on the marker coordinates.
We set the marker size with parameter marker size ms assigned a positive
number
setMarkerSizeScaleFactor (ms)

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