Re: New Vector monitor project progress

Your friend needs to check out the link in the message you responded
to.

The displayed brightness of objects available in an X/Y display is why
they use a dedicated X/Y mode, as opposed to the use of raster
simulating an X/Y monitor (as in an emulator).

This is not to say there are not monitors, being used by the military,
that emulate X/Y modes using a raster screen (I've worked with
monitors in the medical field which do exactly that), but "knowing" of
these monitors does not mean that real X/Y / Raster monitors do not
exist.

-Zonn

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:29:48 +1000, you wrote:

>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 Mon Oct 18 13:06:04 1999