Re: Curvey laser vectors

> With laser scanners if you draw the next vector too soon the corners will
> round out, but if you wait too long it will overshoot and make a little
> loop at every corner.
>
> One solution is to overshoot a little but use hardware blanking to cut off
> the beam at the end of every vector before it can draw the little
> loop. Hardware blanking is a little more expensive... $1795 w/ blanking
> instead of $1045 in the case of the CatWeazle scanner.

Since you really want color control, blanking should be free. Or do the
color modulators not go all the way down to black? Or am I thinking of
a far more expensive solution?

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