Re: [pygame] Old pygame tutorial not working

["Jake b" <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If colors had only a red component, suppose, there would be 256 shades of
> red.  Because this is the case with grey heightmaps (only 256 shades of
> grey), there can only be 256 heights encoded.  The obvious solution is to
> use all four values of color to encode more data, but this is
> computationally unfeasible.
I'm curious why? ( My thought is that doing a get on r,g,b,a would be
fast relative the blur operation? )

Does this fix it?

soften[1:][0:] += Data[0:-1][0:]*8

I think if you want to slice pixel arrays then PixelArray() works
better: http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/pixelarray.html

-- 
Jake