semigraphics
Sign in to saveAlso known as text semigraphics, pseudographics, block graphics, mosaic graphics, semi-graphics, pseudo-graphics
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- {{anchor|Squot|Sextant|Quadrant}}Block graphics
- Examples of the use of block graphics
- Semigraphical characters
- Systems that relied on semigraphical characters
- See also
- References
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Text-based semigraphics, pseudographics, or character graphics is a primitive method used in early text mode video hardware to emulate raster graphics without having to implement the logic for such a display mode.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “semigraphics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.