HARDWARE FOR VISUAL OUTPUT AND INTERACTION

Examples of displays using different modes of operation are shown, and the evolution is described of different display types from a few basic systems, namely the high performance free vector drawing display, the constrained format alphanumeric display, television techniques, soft copy methods such as storage tube, hard-copy, and solid state displays. High performance graphics are briefly discussed, and low cost graphics categorized into 2 classes, namely minicomputer graphics and hardware graphics, are detailed. Visual display units, Raster Scan (symoblic graphics) and television displays are covered. Details are also given of scan converters, eraseable stores, DVST, cathodochromic tubes, photochromic displays, lithcon, and mechanical displays. Solid state (plasma displays, LED's, electroluminescence, liquid crystals, electrophoresus, electrochromics) and interactive techniques are also reviewed.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This article appeared in Road Design which is a publication containing the Proceedings of Seminar X held at the University of Warwick, England.
• Corporate Authors:

  Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd

  167 Oxford Street
  London W1R 1AH,   England 

  Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd

  167 Oxford Street
  London W1R 1AH,   England 
• Authors:
  • Grover, D J
• Publication Date: 1975-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 99-109
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd
  • Publisher: Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd
  • ISSN: 0266450-X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer graphics; Graphics; Highway design; Information display systems; Information processing; Minicomputers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Hardware; Interactive graphics
• Old TRIS Terms: Displays; Graphic methods
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00145019
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: P131
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 1 1977 12:00AM