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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Are any 2k x 2k Color Screens available?
Keywords: display, 2048
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Date: 5 Oct 89 14:57:04 GMT
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I heard larger color monitors set one back $20K.
DataQuest circulated a study at the Bay Area SIGGRAPH last year stating
that for physological reasons one is not going to see all that much more
beyond 2K edges.  The fact that monitor size increases have "stalled" at
1.2K for the past five or six years may be partially due to this.
Then a case could be made that instaneous pan-and-zoom (as fast as a pointing
device) could simulate arbitrary high pixel counts rather than actually
displaying them.