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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
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Subject: Re:  Screen blankers
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Date: 5 Apr 91 23:06:59 GMT
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From article <1991Apr5.213251.14971@cs.cornell.edu>, by johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee):
> 
> Um, the purpose of a screen blanker is to reduce the amount of time pixels
> are active.  Flashing a pixel on/off at a 50% duty cycle will burn a pixel
> just as well as turning the pixel on constantly, just not as quickly.  A
> screen blanker should *blank* the screen, not draw a pretty pattern that
> does just as nice a job of burning as an image of a window.  It's worse if
> the screen blanker doesn't turn on pixels evenly across the screen, making
> one portion darker than the rest.

Okay, I want the little flying toasters, the wire objects changing
shape, the nifty little screensavers.  I want them.  Any of them.  As
many as people can get their hands on.  Tell me where to find them ( I
don't want something to simply blank the screen, but tell me where
those are, too).  I want to make a big archive of all of them to drop
at ab20 and a few local BBSes...  Lots of people are looking for stuff
like this.  The toaster shouldn't be too hard, it's just a bunch of
animated toasters flying across the screen with little white wings,
and little pieces of toast following it... :)  Looked kind of cute, too...

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