On Fri, 6 May 2011 21:12:08 -0600 Bill Thoen <[email protected]> dijo:
>Sometimes I wonder how different things would be today if we had taken >a different path in developing electronic display technology. The >original Cathod Ray Tube and its immediate descendants (oscilloscopes >and RADAR screens) are round. A round display might have been a good >thing. With pixels packed hexagonaly it would lend itself to smoother >anti-aliasing and color blending because the pixels would be spaced >evenly from each other. A round display would have a number of other >interesting properties too in terms of bit-mapping and indexing. >Round screens might have inspired the makers of a certain OS from >Redmond, WA to have named their product "Bubbles" instead. (So would >that make their users Bubble-heads?) Humans are hard wired for rectangles. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
