[PLUG] monitor aspect ratios

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 6 May 2011 21:12:08 -0600
Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com> dijo:

>Sometimes I wonder how different things would be today if we had taken
>a different path in developing electronic display technology. The
>original Cathod Ray Tube and its immediate descendants (oscilloscopes
>and RADAR screens) are round. A round display might have been a good
>thing. With pixels packed hexagonaly it would lend itself to smoother
>anti-aliasing and color blending because the pixels would be spaced
>evenly from each other. A round display would have a number of other
>interesting properties too in terms of bit-mapping and indexing.
>Round screens might have inspired the makers of a certain OS from
>Redmond, WA to have named their product "Bubbles" instead. (So would
>that make their users Bubble-heads?)

Humans are hard wired for rectangles.