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| 1777.1 | I know of no commercial displays with that many pixels | GUEST::ORAN | Dave Oran | Wed Nov 22 1989 08:15 | 18 |
| There may be some military equipment with >4 megapixels, but I don't
personally know about it.
The "largest" display I've ever come across is the high-end color system
from Symbolics, which they sell to the movie/advertising industry.
That display is 2K x 2K (approximately).
The visual effect was *astonishing*.
Remember that 4 megapixels is BETTER than a 35 milimeter slide using
commercial-grade film.
Does the customer REALLY need something that good?
I suspect that they don't need that for an overall plant view, but rather
want to ZOOM. Now zooming over a fixed digital data set requires
arbitrary resolution, but with a workstation synthesizing all of the
object, you can clearly recompute (or pre-compute) zoomed views.
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| 1777.2 | I agree I don't think they need it, but they think they do. | ULF::LUNDQVIST | Strange? I didn't change that module. | Wed Nov 22 1989 11:28 | 12 |
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I agree. I don't think the customer REALLY needs it, but he thinks so.
We have suggested zooming and other nice things you can do
with windowing techniques. We think that one of our competitors
(TI, IBM, Tandem) have locked him into thinking that he needs an
aerial/overview thing on the wall. Price is an issue for this customer
and I don't think they will go for anything with a high price. I am
assuming that a 2k x 2k display will be extremely expensive.
Thanks for your answer
/ Ulf
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| 1777.3 | 300 dpi monitors | OXNARD::HAYNES | Charles Haynes | Mon Nov 27 1989 00:13 | 5 |
| I've seen prototypes of a 300dpi monochrome system.
Astonishing is the right word. Can you say real wysiwyg?
-- Charles
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| 1777.4 | BYTE has a short blurb in the new products section | NORGE::CHAD | Ich glaube Ich t�te Ich h�tte | Mon Nov 27 1989 15:43 | 5 |
| I don't have the BYTE magazine in the office but the lastest (with all the
new notebook laptops) BYTE has a What's New article about a monitor that
offers at least 300dpi. check it out.
Chad
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| 1777.5 | Pixel counting applications would rot... | LENO::GRIER | mjg's holistic computing agency | Mon Nov 27 1989 18:58 | 6 |
| With no offense implied to DECwindows mail, but I'd hate to see it on a
300dpi system. The reading box would be about 1.5" wide.
I bet DECwrite would look incredible tho'...
-mjg
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| 1777.6 | The world should work right... | CRLMAX::jg | Jim Gettys, Cambridge Research Lab | Mon Nov 27 1989 19:23 | 3 |
| If you weren't foolish enough to wire the wrong part of the font name, so that
you'd use an appropriate size font...
- Jim
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| 1777.7 | Tjabba Uffe ! | STKHLM::DSUNDSTROM | Dan Sundstr�m ACT Stockholm | Tue Nov 28 1989 04:08 | 6 |
| Hi Ulf,
Give me a call. We have a customer here in Sweden who's done some projection
with appr 600*2000 size pictures. I can point you in the right direction if you
are interested.
/Danne
876-7217
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