rww@esl.ESL.COM (Rich Webb) (10/05/89)
Hello Graphics Buffs,
I have been reading recently that very high resolution screens
are becoming available. Some 3k x 2.5k grayscale screens for medical
imaging have recently been announced. Sony is apparently making
a 2k x 2k color monitor. But I can't find any information on any
actual Systems that are using them. Any info or pointers would be
welcomed. I will summarize and post.
Thanks,
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Richard W. Webb
ESL Inc. MS/302
495 Java Drive (408) 738-2888 x5729
Sunnyvale, CA 94088 EMAIL: rww@esl.ESL.COM, ames!esl!rwwrick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini) (10/05/89)
I heard larger color monitors set one back $20K. DataQuest circulated a study at the Bay Area SIGGRAPH last year stating that for physological reasons one is not going to see all that much more beyond 2K edges. The fact that monitor size increases have "stalled" at 1.2K for the past five or six years may be partially due to this. Then a case could be made that instaneous pan-and-zoom (as fast as a pointing device) could simulate arbitrary high pixel counts rather than actually displaying them.
mike@tslvax.UUCP (Michael J. Tobias) (10/13/89)
in article <162@esl.ESL.COM>, rww@esl.ESL.COM (Rich Webb) says: > Cc: rww > > Hello Graphics Buffs, > > I have been reading recently that very high resolution screens > are becoming available. Some 3k x 2.5k grayscale screens for medical > imaging have recently been announced. Sony is apparently making > a 2k x 2k color monitor. Tech-Source, Inc. has a single 9U VMEbus board which will drive the Sony 2k x 2k color display. The Sony is a large 28 inch diagonal tube 20 x 20 square format. It weighs in at 225 lbs. The Tech-Source GDS-395x series controllers have drivers for use with Sun Microsystems Sun-3/xxx and Sun-4/xxx systems with VMEbus slots. They also have drivers for X11R3 and Pixrect/SunView. Both software packages run *very* fast since the controller is a combination frame buffer and X-GDP (Tech-Source's X windows Graphics Drawing Processor used in their 1280x1024 products). For more information contact: Tech-Source, Inc. 442 S. North Lake Blvd. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 830-8301 attn: Dick Bendfelt - Director of Sales