Byte vol.5 №11 November 1980

Foreground
32 HOME IN ON THE RANCE! AN ULTRASONIC RANGING SYSTEM by Steve Ciarcia
Combine automatic sonar ranging and inf fared-light detection in a computer-controlled scanner.
64 MICROGRAPH, PART 1: DEVELOPING AN INSTRUCTION SET FOR A RASTER-SCAN DISPLAY by E Grady Booch
Micrograph is an intelligent, low-cost, color-graphics terminal that interfaces to any microcomputer and standard, unmodified color television receiver.
126 GRAPHIC COLOR SLIDES, PART 1 by Alan W Grogono
The first of this two-part article gives a series of useful subroutines for generating color images on a Compucolor II.
148 THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS FOR THE APPLE II by Dan Sokol and John Shepard
With this popular computer, use a two-color scheme to generate three-dimensional figures.
296 A GENERAL INTERPOLATING GRAPHICS PACKAGE FOR THE TRS-SO by D K Cohen and Devon Crowe
Interpolate between points of a graphed function and three-dimensional figures.
340 AN 8088 PROCESSOR FOR THE S-100 BUS, PART 3
by Thomas Woodward Cantrell
This monitor program takes advantage of some powerful software and architectural aspects of the 808fi processor.
Background
22 THE FUTURE OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS by Bruce Eric Brown and Stephen Levine
Take a look at the future of graphics hardware and applications.
90 LANGUAGE CONTROL STRUCTURES FOR EASY ELECTRONIC VISUALIZA-TION by Dr Thomas DeFant i
Zgrass, a hybrid of language and hardware, can be used to solve graphic-display problems.
180 A SIMPLIFIED THEORY OF VIDEO GRAPHICS, PART 1
by Allen Watson HI
Part 1 covers the principles of television and computer-generated graphics.
206 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR MONITOR by Ron Dalpiaz
Meet the most frequently used human/computer interface — the video terminal.
220 DIGITAL STORAGE OF IMAGES by Thomas Williams
Theory and practice of digital-image capture and storage are explained in detail.
244 MACHINE PROBLEM SOLVING, PART 3: THE ALPHA-BETA
PROCEDURE by Peter Frey
In the conclusion of this series, we discover how searching for information stored in tree structures can be made more efficient.
361 ADD MACRO EXPANSION TO YOUR MICROCOMPUTER, PART 2
by David C Brown
Notes on implementation and options are presented in this final part.