Electromechanical TV Goes 3D with This Light-field Display
Electromechanical TV Goes 3D With This Light-field Display No comments by: Tyler August September 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy A mechanical TV — the kind that makes an image with a Nipkow disk and a single lamp with some help from persistence of vision — is easy enough to wrap your head around. Moving that technique into the third dimension, though? Luckily for us [AncientJames] provides a simple visual explanation for how the magic happens.
- ▪Electromechanical TV Goes 3D With This Light-field Display No comments by: Tyler August September 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy A mechanical TV — the kind that makes an image with a Nipkow disk and a single lamp with some help from
- ▪Moving that technique into the third dimension, though?
- ▪Luckily for us [AncientJames] provides a simple visual explanation for how the magic happens.
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Electromechanical TV Goes 3D With This Light-field Display No comments by: Tyler August September 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy A mechanical TV — the kind that makes an image with a Nipkow disk and a single lamp with some help from persistence of vision — is easy enough to wrap your head around. Moving that technique into the third dimension, though? That’s a bit of a head scratcher. Luckily for us [AncientJames] provides a simple visual explanation for how the magic happens. Instead of a disk doing a raster scan of the display, he’s using a rapidly-spinning drum with holes in it. In place of a single lamp, he’s got an array of LED matrix displays, each 32 pixels by 64 pixels in resolution.
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