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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]
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