RE: New Vector monitor project progress

Time to speak. Tired of hiding. Finally have something to contribute.

I mentioned this last week on RGVAC as a question to Clay. Since then, it
actually turns out that I have an ex-army engineer working for me (Boy! do
they have a lot of boardsets to repair now!!!)

She knows of the monitors used in military and medical applications and her
understanding is that these are not dedicated vector/XY/calligraphic
monitors.

The ones she knows of are a raster monitor with a high 'refresh' rate (think
that's the term). The XY signal is input into an image processor which
displays it on the raster screen (I guess like MAME), however these image
processors can take multiple XY and raster signals and impose them on top of
either other - so that you can have a video picture of your target and the
XY targeting device drawn on top of it (something like that).

And Clay was right in his response on RGVAC - it displays each picture each
scan - which is why they have a high 'refresh' rate.

He was also right in predicting that these cost a small country's deficit.

Cheers
MacMan

> ----------
> From: Jeff Anderson
> Reply To: vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu
> Sent: Saturday, 16 October 1999 06:28
> To: vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: New Vector monitor project progress
>
> > 27 inch or bigger. If you're going to do a project of that scale, we may
> > as well get something great out of it. How about 36 inch? Or better yet
> > do it with lasers... Oops I'm getting carried away again.
>
> Lasers. been there, done that (almost, long story) on a 180' OMNIMAX dome
> with a 5-watt argon laser platform (split into R,G,B,Y with full intensity
> control on each color) and a tempest boardset :>
>
> Another small hobby of mine is fooling around (and buying/selling) CRT
> video projectors.. I was screwing around on Barco's website (Barco makes
> the best projectors IMHO :) a couple days ago, and I ran across this:
>
> http://www.eis.barco.com
>
> Barco bought a small company that makes dual mode Raster scan/Calligraphy
> scan projectors.. mainly for applications like flight simulators..
> CALLIGRAPHY SCAN? fancy word for VECTOR? keep an eye out for any surplus
> EIS video projectors.. They should be good for about a 20 foot picture!
> In raster mode these beasts can probably handle 2500x2000 graphics so Id
> assume they could handle displaying Star Wars in calligraphy mode?
>
> Jeff
>
Received on Sun Oct 17 18:29:11 1999