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Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at disney.com
Tue Feb 27 12:16:25 UTC 2001
Right you are. Lot's of pixels are nice to have, and so is a
phyically big display.
Here we were talking about the minimal criterial to do scaling, pdf,
readable fonts, etc., and here the pitch plus a few other things is
what matters in order not to see artifacts. A display that would be
the equivalent of two facing 10" high pages would indeed be about 4M
pixels which is the count that Lex mentioned. But most paper notepads
or xeroxed papers are 8.5*11 with not all the boundary pixels used,
so my calculation covers this physical size.
BTW, in the late sixties we were able to compute pretty accurately
that the proposed Dynabook (which was about 9*12), which employed
its lower quarter with a low travel keyboard and had a squarish
display, needed about 1M pixels in order to simulate paper well
enough for readability, drawing, and capacity.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 5:31 AM -0500 2/27/01, JArchibald at aol.com wrote:
>=> 2/26/01 10:51:03 PM EST, Alan.Kay at disney.com =>
><< Actually, a pitch of about 150/inch and using some color selection
>trickery will do the job pretty darn well. So a pretty nice display would be
>about 1.9 million pixels (8" * 10.5"). >>
>
>According to my multiplier, this is a screen resolution of 1575x1200 pixels
>-- a substantial information content. This is pretty good on all but the very
>largest of screens available today (which needless to say, are quite a bit
>bigger than 8" x 10.5").
>
>Jerry.
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