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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Water-Vision large display system
Summary: water-vision
Message-ID: <17333@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 20 Nov 89 13:44:25 GMT
References: <23952@cup.portal.com> <17400016@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <17400016@hpfcdj.HP.COM>, myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
> >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: :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Myers  KC0EW   HP Graphics Tech. Div.|  Opinions expressed here are not
>                    Ft. Collins, Colorado |  those of my employer or any other
> myers%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com               |  sentient life-form on this planet.

Sounds reasonable.  Lets see, I'm sure the EPA would have a problem with it,
the question is how do you recover the isotopes of the various colors, or
perhaps that is a DOE or DOD (DODO ?) question.  Then again the FDA might get
involved over the carcinogenic nature of red-pixels vs blue pixels-.... (ha)

Seriously, I would like to know what is going on with it, and how it is done,
though I could not resists the facicious (spelling ???) questions...!
Cheers Woody