P3D Re: optics of stereo viewers

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>Note that some screens are indeed flat flat.  Ones that are LCD based
>for instance (which are coming to the desktop) as well as some older
>Tektronix DVST screens (back when the ruled the world of graphics
>display and sat on their laurels too long).

I had hoped it wasn't necessary to insult the intelligence of most of the list
members by over-specifying that it was "*CRT-based* monitors about which I was
writing.

(Seriously, Mike, how many list members are likely to be using "Direct View
Storage Tube" displays [so-called "vector" or "stroke-based" displays, which
only display straight lines in a single color {green}] to do 3D graphics
today?  Yes, flat panel displays are coming, but currently cost thousands of
dollars for a typical desktop-size [15" or more] display.  I doubt whether many
of our frugal list members are using one, somehow.)

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)




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