Scanned-display computer graphics

@article{Noll1971ScanneddisplayCG,
  title={Scanned-display computer graphics},
  author={A. Michael Noll},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={1971},
  volume={14},
  pages={143-150}
}
  • A. Noll
  • Published 1 March 1971
  • Computer Science
  • Commun. ACM
A television-like scanned-display system has been successfully implemented on a Honeywell DDP-224 computer installation. [] Key Method The scanned image is stored in the core memory of the computer, and software scan conversion is used to convert the rectangular coordinates of a point to the appropriate word and bit in an output display array in core storage. Results thus far indicate that flicker-free displays of large amounts of data are possible with reasonably fast graphical interaction. A scanned image…
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