> >Unfortunately Texas Instruments has a patent on drawing 3-D images
> >on a spinning helix. I was royally pissed to discover this in the
> >late eighties because I'd prototyped it years earlier using a
> >photocopier lens and a CRT after seeing an article in Byte magazine for
> >creating a 3-D image using an oscilloscope and a spining mirror.
> >The byte article even had 8080 code for generating simple vector
> >graphics.
>
> Could you not use the Byte article as an example of "prior art" if
> challenged? I have heard of people getting articles printed in obscure
> newspapers in places like Iceland so as to have the "prior art" publishing
> available, while having the article printed in a place where it was not
> likely to be seen by anyone in the trade while they got their item to a
> producible point, but no-one else could patent it as it was now published.
>
This 3D system is featured in the latest copy of a trade journal

http://www.actuality-systems.com/

Regards

Chris Carr

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