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THE 4050 SERIES VOL. 5 NO.3
APPLICATIONS LIBRARY NEWSLETTER SUMMER/ FALL 1981




Tekniques




COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE
Tekniques Color Enhanced
In This Issue Dynamic Graphics:
Color Enhanced Dynamic
Graphics .......................... 2
Low-Cost CADD System
Communicates Numerically
and Graphically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5
New PLOT 50 Digitizing
Software Encodes Graphic
Images ............. : ............ 11
A New Option; A New Technology
Graphic Systems Workshops ........ 15
450,000 Byte Cartridge Tape ........ 15
Input/Output ...................... 17
Editor's Note .................... 18
Programming Tips ................ 19
BASIC Bits ...................... 26
Library Consolidation .............. 28
New Abstracts .................... 29




By Thomas W. Woody
Tektronix, Inc. objects which are in the familiar green
color. And displaying a refreshed image
Beaverton, OR
over a stored image achieves a third co-
lor - very useful for highlighting text or
Dynamic Graphics* brought powerful in- objects.
teractivity to the TEKTRONIX 4054
Desktop Computer. Now the 4054 has Packaging a desktop computer with very
taken another technological leap: Color high resolution (4096 x 4096 addressable
Enhanced Dynamic Graphics. This new points), Dynamic Graphics, and a second
option aliows refreshed objects to be color required a major technological ad-
moved around on the graphics screen in vancement. To understand this technolo-
a contrasting orange color. Enhancing gy, let's take a look at the Direct View
Dynamic Graphics with color clearly dis- Storage Tube (DVST), the Write-Thru
tinguishes refreshed objects from stored operation, and the Over-Write features.




TEKniques, the 4050 Series Applications
Library Newsletter, is published by the l----~- CHARGEIMAGEAREA
Information Display Division of (fully written, FW)

Tektronix, Inc., Group 451, P.O. Box 500, o\l!!i\-----I.- PHOSPHOR

Beaverton, Oregon 97077. It is distributed
to TEKTRONIX 4050 Series users and V--H~_ _ _~ RAISED COLLECTORS
members of the