Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bbn.com!cosell
From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for October 1990
Message-ID: <60024@bbn.BBN.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 90 12:33:53 GMT
References: <6924@uwm.edu>
Sender: news@bbn.com
Lines: 19

dannys@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Shurilla) writes:

}>}>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....

Dunno what system you're talking about [I'll go see if the BBN library has the
issue of Byte you mention], but the Genisco display used a vibrating mirror,
as described.

  /Bernie\