Hardcopy and display technologies

CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring Quarter, 1995
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Thursday, April 6

Table of contents:

• Measures of spatial resolution
  • Physical resolution
  • Addressable resolution
• Hardcopy technologies
  • General characteristics
  • Plotters, laserwriter
  • Color printers
  • Film recorder
• Raster CRTs
  • Deflection, coating, color
  • Resolution, refresh
  • Persistence