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From: Allon.Stern@SOLARVAX.UMD.EDU
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Subject: RReRecRecuRecurRecursRecursiRecursioRecursion on NTSC--->MicroTV
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Date: 24 Aug 89 23:51:22 GMT
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In Message <580@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu writes:

>No, you're wrong again. Hook a camera (only do this with chip cameras --
>you'll burn tube cameras!) directly to a monitor such that you can see
>realtime movement when you move the camera. Point the camera DIRECTLY at
>the TV. What do you see? Depending upon how your equipment is setup/white
>balanced/etc., you will see one solid color in the monitor (usually white)
>-- feedback. Point the camera at the edges, and you can see neat "recursion".
>The MicroTV/NTSC hacks will give you pure feedback white -- the output of
>the video card will be directly channeled into the MicroTV, resulting in
>uninteresting solid video feedback.

Well, this would be so *IF* the MicroTV filled up the whole screen, but since
it is only in a DA sized window (from what I've heard) the output from the
NTSC hack would consist of your mac screen with a window containing your
mac screen with a window...ad infinitum.  Feedback would not occur.
(at least not in the sense of the screen being a solid color)


                               - -= Allon =- -

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