Month: May 2010

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braun tube

Braun Tube

by Dummy Admin

The development of the first CRT was the culmination of many years, or in this case, centuries, of research and discovery which put into place all the necessary elements. These include: the first manmade …

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Bi/Tri-Linear Filtering

by Dummy Admin

A simple form of texture filtering, point sampling, could be used to scale textures prior to their being mapped onto surfaces in a 3D scene. This technique could easily introduce errors by taking a …

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beam focusing

Beam-Focusing

by Dummy Admin

There are parts of the CRT that control the production, flow, acceleration and direction of the tube’s electron beam but leave its shape unaltered.  As the electrons accelerate towards the screen, they tend to …

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aperture grille

Aperture Grille

by Dummy Admin

Before the three-gun, shadow mask CRT was firmly established as a standard for producing colour CRTs, several other novel systems were developed. One of these was the PDF (Post Deflection Focusing) Chromatron developed at …

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antialiasing

Antialiasing

by Dummy Admin

Antialiasing, as the name suggests, is a technique used to combat an effect known as aliasing. When a line is drawn on a piece of paper, its edges appear smooth regardless of the line’s …

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anode

Anode

by Dummy Admin

The control grid regulates the number of electrons which are allowed to leave the gun of a CRT by using a negative voltage to repel the electrons. Once free of the control grid’s influence, …

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Anistropic Filtering

by Dummy Admin

Anisotropic means “non-uniform shape” and it is because this filtering technique works on non-uniform, or uneven, shaped areas that it is more powerful, and takes much more processing power, than Point Sampling, bi-linear or …

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alphablending

Alpha-Blending

by Dummy Admin

Alpha-blending is a technique which can be used when computer graphics are laid on top of each other and one or more of the objects contain a transparent, or semi-transparent, portion. It ensures that …

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EMEA Monitor Market continues recovery in Q1 2010

by Dummy Admin

Meko’s latest data indicates that the Q1 2010 desktop monitor (DTM) market continued to build on its recovery after the recession. Analysis by the displays specialist shows that the market grew by 9% YoY …

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Wishy washy coalitions?

by Bob Raikes

There has been a lot going on around us. In the UK, we had an election that resulted in a ‘hung parliament’, with no single party having a clear majority. After a few days …

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