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From: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny)
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Subject: Re: Costs of High-resolution graphical displays
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Date: 18 Nov 90 06:23:30 GMT
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In article <11137@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>That doesn't mean that we're stuck, that means that it's time for
>another change. One possibility is liquid crystal. Some researchers
>are doing color via LC shutters over grayscale CRTs; this eliminates
>the fabrication/resolution issues of a color CRT's color mask. Some
>researchers use a small LC image, and use optics to make a large
>projection of it.  There are fun projects writing luminous dots with
>lasers; the plasma panel people haven't given up; and in general
>there are a zoo of experiments and hopes that could still make it. In
>summary, I'm optimistic. All the labs know how valuable the right
>patent could be: they are spending the money to search for it.

I'd like to see a genetically-engineered animal with pixel-addressible
skin pigment cells. We could start with an animal such as a squid or
flatfish that already adjusts it pigmentation at will to camouflage
itself. We could probably goose one of those babies up to run
X-window. Then display size would be limited only by the size of
the aquarium. It would be portable, provided you liked swimming.
And best of all, it would be touch sensitive.

I can see the project meeting already: "What do you mean, the code
is late because a sperm whale ate your display?!?"






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