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My understanding was that many lcd panels required custom drivers/firmware that was often embedded in the laptop/display board.
He says in the article that "Apple did a good job with their monitor", but what he fails to realize is that the panel in that monitor is made by Samsung, and is used in numerous other monitors, such as a bunch of Dell Ultrasharp monitors. These are the exact same monitor, except with a different frame and stand, and are available for a fraction of the cost.
He says in the article that "Apple did a good job with their monitor", but what he fails to realize is that the panel in that monitor is made by Samsung, and is used in numerous other monitors, such as a bunch of Dell Ultrasharp monitors. These are the exact same monitor, except with a different frame and stand, and are available for a fraction of the cost.
Which monitor would you recommend that uses the same display as the 5k iMac? Apparently Samsung made one half a year ago that costs as much as the iMac itself.
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Dell-Monitor-UP2715K-27-Inch-LED-...
Not that I would recommend it over the iMac for this project.
I'm a big fan of flux, but brightness adjustment is another story. On my iPad, I quickly turned it off. The auto-brightness never hit the spot I wanted, and switched too strongly and too late. Reading on the bus, the brightness basically goes berserk at every shadow and never settles. At home it would be more manageable, but unfortunately desktop monitors don't support brightness adjustments as far as I know -- reall…
Nicely done, though I would have loved to have seen some build pictures. There are a number of commercial players in this market (for example https://frm.fm/ ) which combine hardware and marketplace, and the geek in me would love to see these succeed. I work in e-commerce selling art reproductions and have thought a lot about this. I believe as soon as you make the art ephemeral or changeable, its value (to you, rath…
I would expect there are people who lovingly care for their collection of vinyl records and find the desire to digitize a music collection equally unimaginable.
I would also argue that sound can be reproduced digitally in a way that closely resembles the analog equivalent, but the same is not true of displaying art on screens vs on actual paper/canvas (despite the impressive efforts in the linked post).
>> A fun (but impractical and frustrating) variant of this feature is to have the image change as soon as the viewer looks away. So you’re looking at a painting, glance away to another room, and look back to find a new painting hanging on the wall. Re this comment. There is this thing called "saccadic masking", the gist of which is that we are effectively blind while our eyes move from focusing on one position to the…
This is also the principle behind foveated rendering ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_imaging ) where you only render the graphics in high detail where the viewer is looking, and use a low-res image for the rest with the goal of saving computing power. Big area of development right now for VR!
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I would expect there are people who lovingly care for their collection of vinyl records and find the desire to digitize a music collection equally unimaginable.
Granted, though I think the difference is even more pronounced when the primary purpose of the physical object is to be appreciated visually. Not to detract from the visual appeal of record sleeves, but the primary goal is to house the album. I would also argue that sound can be reproduced digitally in a way that closely resembles the analog equivalent, but the same is not true of displaying art on screens vs on actu…
Paint on any medium is a slightly sculptural 3D. You can look at a masterpiece from four hundred years ago and see the brushstrokes. The reflection from the relief map changes as you move your head.
Fine art inkjet prints are more subtly textured, because museum-grade paper is never perfectly flat.
A lot of art is huge - many feet by many feet. The giant displays needed to reproduce it don't exist yet.
But the biggest problem with electronic frames is working out how to power them without trailing an obvious power lead to the floor. You can solve this problem by plastering the display into the wall, or by building a false wall, or by ignoring it. None of those are ideal.
I'd love to see a practical solution, but I'm not sure one is possible with current technology - although it may get closer with the new film displays that are appearing.
I like the light sensing here though. That's a clever solution.
If I pull an LCD panel out of an old laptop, how do I connect it to something small like a raspberry pi or beaglebone? My understanding was that many lcd panels required custom drivers/firmware that was often embedded in the laptop/display board.
>> A fun (but impractical and frustrating) variant of this feature is to have the image change as soon as the viewer looks away. So you’re looking at a painting, glance away to another room, and look back to find a new painting hanging on the wall. Re this comment. There is this thing called "saccadic masking", the gist of which is that we are effectively blind while our eyes move from focusing on one position to the…
The viewer watches a series of projected photographs of a streetscape with small differences between each (a pedestrian appears, a taxi disappears), but they don't see these changes because when the image changes, a small flash occurs, which somehow resets the optic system's change-detection system. The viewer can then press a button to suppress the interstitial flashes, and with no flashes, they can easily see the differences as they occur.