U of CA Constructs 220 Million Pixel Display 145
eldavojohn writes "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have built a 220 million pixel display across 55 high-resolution tiled screens. Linked via optical fiber to Calit2's building at UC Irvine, the display can deliver real-time rendered graphics simultaneously across 420 million pixels to audiences in Irvine and San Diego."
It's called UCSD or (Score:5, Informative)
Can't samezenpus get the least bit of editorial right? Oh, yeah, he can't. He's samzenpus, and he's not an editor, he's an idiotor.
I mean wtf is U of CA? I've never seen it written like that, ever.
And to get this rant back on topic:
Is the screen effervescent?
Re:Human eyes (Score:5, Informative)
Re:WANT! Really, really want. (Score:2, Informative)
No, but yes (Score:5, Informative)
But that doesn't take into account your brain. Your eye transfers raw data to your brain similar to a bitmap/RAW file. The way your brain processes this information, though, is more like a vector image. Our brains "see" lines and shapes much more than it sees individual points of colours. Which makes the answer even more complicated. We don't really see all the pixels, but we're able to piece together most of the pixels while our eyes move about, ALTHOUGH our brain "transforms" that information so it makes more sense to us.
A really neat example that illustrates how the brain processes raw data: close your eyes, and get a friend (or yourself, if you can trust yourself not to cheat) to hold up something that is near the outer edge of your peripheral vision. Open your eyes, but don't move them - keep looking straight ahead so that the object is still near the edge of your peripheral vision. You can SEE the object, and can possibly even tell what it is. But what colour is the object? Even though your eyes are able to see colour even in your peripheral vision, the brain doesn't think that the information of colour is as important as the outline/shape of the object. It is only when something is near the centre of your vision (in other words, where your attention usually is) that you can tell what colour it is.
What's the point? (Score:1, Informative)
When they create a 220 million LCD screen, then great.
Re:It's called UCSD or (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No, but yes (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No, but yes (Score:3, Informative)
It's not usually measured in pixel count because pixel count is an entirely irrelevant concept to eye resolution. The angular resolution of the eye is extremely high at the center of the image, and falls off extremely rapidly in a very steep bell curve. So unlike a monitor, the number of pixels across the eye's vision does not correlate at all to the maximum angular resolution of the eye.
Re:Not completely unique! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Remove the seams (Score:3, Informative)