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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Water-Vision large display system
Message-ID: <17400016@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:55:16 GMT
References: <23952@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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>don't know, but that sounds interesting.  Perhaps it is a projection
>tv kind of thing.  Or perhaps they are using the sheet of water like
>a fiber-optic and injecting a raster line into it (with tounge in cheek)
>...does the scan line get captured bye the water and moved down the screen?


Sure, and then the used scan lines are recovered from the pool below, for
cleaning and re-use, by a special pump and filter system.  This was
required by the government before the product could be approved for sale,
as there was major concern over the possibilities for long-term pixel
pollution of the nation's water supply.


Oh, yeah: :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)



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