P3D Re: optics of stereo viewers

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>Here at work I have the cylinder-shaped Trinitron tube type display.  I've
>got an upgrade coming -- a new Sun workstation with a 24" display.  I'm not
>sure what kind of CRT the new display will have.  Should be installed soon
>so we'll see.  :-)


My new Dell home system has a Trinitron-based 17" Dell monitor.  They are really
quite superior to the conventional 3-gun tube in many respects (single-axis,
rather than dual-axis, curvature; aperture grill rather than shadow mask, single
gun rather than triple).

>Does the radius of the curve vary with screen size?  On my current display,
>(21" I think) it doesn't curve as much (horizontally) as I seem to recall
>seeing smaller trinitrons having.  Or maybe it just seems that way?


It doesn't appear to, but I have no factual information to back up that
observation.  However, if it did, large screens should appear considerably less
'flat' than their smaller counterparts, which I have not observed.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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