T3D Re: acuity enhanced......display issues

[Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:53 AM -0800 3/19/98, Peter Abrahams wrote:
>>Did the paper discuss any methods used to allow for
>>display-related issues?
>
>>From the article:
>Sloan characters were displayed on a Mitsubishi color monitor driven by an
>X-Windows (X-11) server residing on a Silicon Graphics IRIS 4D/25 graphic
>workstation with a StereoGraphics Corporation stereo-display system.  The
>final resolution of the display was 1280 horizontal x 512 vertical pixels,
>and the luminance was 88.3 cd/m^2.  ....(low vert. from synced
>shutters....monitor 120Hz..)The glasses provided an apparently flicker-free
>60-Hz image to each eye, with 32% transmittance and negligible cross talk
>(~1.1% transmittance through the closed shutter)

Anyone want to guess at the phosphor persistence (i.e. how much it would be
emitting 1/120th of a second after the gun swept by)....

-Jim C.

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