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From: dannys@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Shurilla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for October 1990
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Date: 12 Oct 90 14:28:23 GMT
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>}>Re the 3-D display, a company called GENISCO supposedly had one of these
>}>in 1982. Theirs worked by bouncing the projected image off a vibrating
>}>mirror. Not quite walk around but certainly viewable without 3-D glasses.
>
There was a good article on this technique in BYTE magazine, May 1978,
Volume 3, Number 5. "Graphics In Depth:" included detailed theory, construction
plans and software listings.

The setup used a rotating mirror, oscilloscope, Z80 based S100 computer and
a custom hardware interface. The software was a BASIC program with assembly
routines. I can imagine a rotating mirror, modulated Laser and an AMIGA
driving a 1990's version of this hardware hack setup!

Give the article a look, it's very interesting and demonstrates that BYTE
really WAS a good magazine.

dannys@csd4.csd.uwm.edu