I remember when I was writing the program to draw the 'please wait' picture, the operating system ran out of memory just after the 'a' in 'wait'. I was like, "oh shit, what now"? If I were a more careful programmer, I guess I would have known that or would have managed my memory better. But then after hacking around, I figured out with a couple tricks that I could write 2 separate programs and display them on the screen both at the same time, so the second program only writes the letters 'it' without overwriting the output of the first program. That's pretty sad.
Paul, that TV tube burn is damn sweet. Thanks for posting it. I started mine in early 2005 but it took 6-8 months, those apple monochrome monitors are resilient little bastards. Based on this cartoon burn, new shit has come to light, and now the US patent office might reject my application. I'm doing another burn with a legacy IBM 5151, those were crap and burn more easily I've discovered.
On the monochromes, I can uniformly burn exactly the 'pixels' that I want, very crisp edges. Looks like the TV tube might be that way too. Looking at the plasma photo of Cory's, looks like the burn happens in a very different way. I'm not really a hardware expert, so I couldn't say as to why, but there is a residual diffused glow around the edges of the image. Interesting. Post-burn, that makes the font much fatter, and the typography snobs I know would say something like "oh gawd the kerning and line height need adjustments".
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Paul, that TV tube burn is damn sweet. Thanks for posting it. I started mine in early 2005 but it took 6-8 months, those apple monochrome monitors are resilient little bastards. Based on this cartoon burn, new shit has come to light, and now the US patent office might reject my application. I'm doing another burn with a legacy IBM 5151, those were crap and burn more easily I've discovered.
On the monochromes, I can uniformly burn exactly the 'pixels' that I want, very crisp edges. Looks like the TV tube might be that way too. Looking at the plasma photo of Cory's, looks like the burn happens in a very different way. I'm not really a hardware expert, so I couldn't say as to why, but there is a residual diffused glow around the edges of the image. Interesting. Post-burn, that makes the font much fatter, and the typography snobs I know would say something like "oh gawd the kerning and line height need adjustments".
- stephe 3-30-2007 10:28 am