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You could order the presentation of a set of images by some distance metric :) - naively: Levenshtein - better: real world edit time based on a model of the display : probably dominated by XY travel distance
Unfortunately I can't find the video. Will edit if I do (or anybody else finds it first).
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I think I might put this in my friend's coffee shop but I'll restrict access to people in the coffee shop. Not going to let the internet get a hold of that. In addition to the user-controlled modes I also have ambient modes. My favorite is a clock that struggles to draw the current time because it takes too long
You gotta do the classic bouncing logo from The Office.
Mine was entirely mechanical (driven by punch cards and a hand-crank), and changed all of the pixels in parallel, but a lot of the mechanism development looked extremely familiar to me.
Has there ever been designed a "display" that is just a thermal printer hidden in one end of a box, and a take-up spool + tensioning spring hidden on the other end, such that the "display" is then a continuous thermal paper "scroll" stretched across the box behind [UV-protective!] glass, that can be "refreshed" by printing a new full-width image to the thermal printer?
This used to exist! I remember a video about this large analog billboard in Amsterdam (?). Unfortunately I can't find the video. Will edit if I do (or anybody else finds it first).
Speaking of "alternatives to e-ink for a zero-power-use-when-not-updating dot-matrix display"... Has there ever been designed a "display" that is just a thermal printer hidden in one end of a box, and a take-up spool + tensioning spring hidden on the other end, such that the "display" is then a continuous thermal paper "scroll" stretched across the box behind [UV-protective!] glass, that can be "refreshed" by printin…