Title: Sprite or Picture Dissolve
Description: To make a fast dissolve with transparency as in sprites. Similar but not quite
            like a fade in. This little program shows the ground works on how to make some
            really nice effects using prefabricated masks to implement all sorts of transitions.
            Although this only has one transition using one set of masks, it clearly shows the
            awesome difference in speed that can be achieved by implementing prefabricated
            masks as opposed to using bulky dlls,ocx's, or slow get set API's. Using this
            technique one's imagination is the only limit to the possible transitons/mask sets
            that can be achieved. The reason there is only one set of masks or one transition,
            is that I just today came up with this idea. I had been trying to make a fast fade
            with pixel manipulation but slow was all I got. I will most definitlely be making more
            of these mask sets as I believe They will make a handsome alternative to using
            the existing slow APIs etc. I would appreciate any mask sets anyone else creates
            and would like to share. This technique can also be utilized with bigger images
            with very fast transition speeds. But for now I just made this smaller picture boxes
            to test the technique. Hope you all like it!
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