At 11:55 AM 8/1/2003 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>> Getting scanning linear would be an impressive trick though, since the
>> screen is typically flat, but a constant length beam would describe a
>> section of a sphere.
>
>First, if you sweep out a relatively narrow angle, the effect will be
>minimized.

Right, but then you need a large distance from the projector to the screen.
That might not be a problem with a system like this though.

> Second, you don't have to sweep linearly, just display the
>pixels linearly.

I don't follow you.
I was assuming that the pixels wouldn't have much space between them.
You don't need it, and it would make the picture proportionally dimmer.

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