houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Charles (Chuck) Houpt) (03/01/89)
Has anybody experimented with using fuzzy fonts on standard
TV sets? If so, how many columns of text can be displayed?
Most computers that can use TV sets have only 40-60 columns
of text (for example the Apple II or Commedore 64).
Can fuzzy fonts give readable 80 column text?
Thanks -Chuck Houpt
houpt@svax.cs.cornell.eduksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth) (03/01/89)
In article <25613@cornell.UUCP> houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Charles (Chuck) Houpt) writes: >Has anybody experimented with using fuzzy fonts on standard >TV sets? If so, how many columns of text can be displayed? >Most computers that can use TV sets have only 40-60 columns >of text (for example the Apple II or Commedore 64). >Can fuzzy fonts give readable 80 column text? > >Thanks -Chuck Houpt > houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu Yes. Many places. A paper at the 1981 CMCCS conference by Andy Lippmann (MIT Media Lab) discussed this. There are many (many) others before and since. Note: "fuzzy" means antialiased?
ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth) (03/01/89)
Computational Video: Television As a Human Interface A. Lippman MIT CMCCS '81 June 1981 pp. 133-137 Unfortunately, most of what you want was provided in a live demo, and is not in the paper. There are other papers at the conference that touch on the issues. More recent work appears at SIGGRAPH, Graphics Interface, and other conferences plus various journals.
barons@Torino.orc.olivetti.com (Barry Arons) (03/07/89)
You might want to look at "Fuzzy Fonts: Analog Models Improve Digitial Text
Quality" by Christopher Schmandt of the Architecture Machine Group (now the
Media Lab). I have a preprint, but it was to appear in NCGA 1983 Chicago.
If you cannot dig it up, you can probably get a copy of it along with other
relevent papers from the Media Lab at 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA, 02139
Barry.
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