Hi Frank, thank you for the nice comments! Yes - with the very high end D/A converters built into many microcontrollers these days, it is very much possible to make equally nice shapes. And, have greater flexibility in the code, of course. A one-chip control board is even feasible.
But I just love analog too much! Hi Michel - funny you mention Vectrex. I know someone with one! I think you can imagine all the enhancements I'd like to do on my clock's software - in time. Aaron On 2012/09/04, at 16:44, Michel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > That is of course true, once the resolution of the camera/screen > becomes large enough you're not going to see a difference. But the > driving algorithm is very interesting and totally different from pixel > based systems. Back in the 1980's I had a game computer called > "Vectrex", it must have used something similar although they were not > circles but straight lines (vectors). It looked so much better than a > game computer connected to a low resolution monitor. The only thing is > that once you start displaying more and more objects on the screen, > the refresh rate goes down to like 10Hz and you can really notice a > flickering of the screen. > > Michel > > > > > On Sep 4, 4:52 pm, "Frank Bemelman" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Michel, >> >> The pictures you looked at were taken by a pixel based camera >> and displayed on your pixel based display. >> >> With adequate DA converters, pixel based could look just as nice. >> >> That said I am the first to admit that this analog vector driven >> approach is much more passionate compared to cold bits & pixels. >> >> Beautiful clock indeed. >> >> Cheers, Frank >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> From: Michel >> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 12:07 AM >> To: neonixie-l >> Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: My new Scope Clock site, Oscilloclock.com >> >> That is really nice, the characters look so much better than they do >> with a pixel based display. >> >> Great job! >> Michel >> >> On Sep 4, 7:39 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>> On 2012/09/04, at 2:01, kay486 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> This clock looks really nice! Just one thing, do you know that XI stands >>>> for 11 not 12. I saw this in some pictures on that site. >> >>> Incredible! How did I miss that?! Thanks very much for pointing it out - >>> an easy fix for my next code update. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "neonixie-l" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
