Thus spake Thomas Russ: > > Random thought: Given the improvement in graphics card capability, I > wonder a bit about whether using > only a single map image internally and doing the zooming using > graphcis transformations might not be more responsive? >
That had occurred to me as well. The GPUs on modern graphics cards are basically overgrown matrix multipliers, and all scaling is is a matrix operation. The problem is, I don't know how to get at any of the 3D card stuff through Java. If you have any suggestions, I'd be happy to look into them. -- J.
