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A vector monitor, vector display, or calligraphic display is a display device used for computer graphics up through the 1970s. It is a type of CRT, similar to that of an early oscilloscope. In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels as in raster graphics.
The following table compares cathode-ray tube (CRT), liquid-crystal display (LCD), plasma and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device technologies. These are the most often used technologies for television and computer displays.
The shadow mask is installed to the screen using metal pieces [348] or a rail or frame [349] [350] [351] that is fused to the funnel or the screen glass respectively, [256] holding the shadow mask in tension to minimize warping (if the mask is flat, used in flat-screen CRT computer monitors) and allowing for higher image brightness and contrast.
The single fixed-screen mode used in first-generation (128k and 512k) Apple Mac computers, launched in 1984, with a monochrome 9" CRT integrated into the body of the computer. Used to display one of the first mass-market full-time GUIs, and one of the earliest non-interlaced default displays with more than 256 lines of vertical resolution.
Display technology Screen shape Largest known diagonal Typical use Usable in bright room (in) (cm) Eidophor front projection Flat (limited only by brightness) TV: No Shadow mask CRT: Spherical curve or flat 42 [1] 107 TV, computer monitor: Yes Aperture grille CRT: Cylindrical curve or flat 42 [2] 107 TV, computer monitor: Yes Monochrome CRT ...
A scan line (also scanline) is one line, or row, in a raster scanning pattern, such as a line of video on a cathode-ray tube (CRT) display of a television set or computer monitor. [1] On CRT screens the horizontal scan lines are visually discernible, even when viewed from a distance, as alternating colored lines and black lines, especially when ...
The earliest computer graphics systems, like those of the TX-2 and DEC PDP-1, required the entire attention of the computer to maintain. A list of points [ 1 ] stored in main memory was periodically read out to the display to refresh it before the image faded.
In a CRT, the vertical scan rate is the number of times per second that the electron beam returns to the upper left corner of the screen to begin drawing a new frame. [3] It is controlled by the vertical blanking signal generated by the video controller , and is partially limited by the monitor's maximum horizontal scan rate .