Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!hao!hull From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Hires(640x400 Interlaced) Message-ID: <477@hao.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 15:03:10 EST Article-I.D.: hao.477 Posted: Wed Dec 17 15:03:10 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 03:39:35 EST References: <152@wlbreng1.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 31 Summary: perhaps owls are not bothered by interlace flicker In article <152@wlbreng1.UUCP>, steve@wlbreng1.UUCP (Steve Childress) writes: > ------- > Re: Interlaced flicker in 640 mode: > > I run emacs and cli in the 48 line mode, routinely, with no complaints. > I could never understand all the gripes about flicker, as my system is > acceptable with preferences-set white at 80% on a blue background. > One day while I was comfortably using Aegis Draw in a brightly lit room (after having invoked setlace) a guy walked in and said "My GOD how can you stand looking at that display!" I said "Huh?" He said "It is kajumpin all over the bejezzes place - don't you see it?" I said "No." We got into discussion about this, and dragged in a bunch of others. It drove half of them nuts. Since we are photodetector phreaks around here, the discussion eventually expanded to the matter of why - and we tripped across the matter of night vision. A substantial fraction of the guys who couldn't stand the Amiga admitted problems with night vision (i.e. finding it necessary to slow down at night to feel comfortable, even with roads they knew fairly well). A substantial fraction of the guys that weren't bothered by the interlace flicker admitted having a poor batting average in softball (day or night). So I am beginning to think that there are two kinds of people - those with long-time-constant integration (who see well at night) and those with short-time-constant integration (who can accurately track rapidly moving objects with minimal position-phase error). It is important, therefore, that none of you ever show your Amiga to any corporate execs who are good at softball... keep the demos to the ones that hang out in dark, cool bistros... Howard Hull [If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion... ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts] {ucbvax!hplabs | decvax!noao | mcvax!seismo | ihnp4!seismo} !hao!hull