5 Oct
2006
5 Oct
'06
10:06 a.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
The following may-or-may-not suit the esthetics you
want to achieve, but it
certainly would have a retro/low-tech aspect to it:
Revert to the 10-layer technique used in the early-mid-sixties.
Each digit is made up from 10 layers of clear plastic, where each layer has
dimple/dots/pixels forming 1 of the 10 numerals. Light is injected into a
layer from the side and refracts out when it hits the dimples.
You know, I'd forgotten about that. Our TR-48 uses such displays IIRC. It's
certainly a possibility. As you say, there's some light bleed-through between
digits, but that actually adds to the effect anyway!
cheers
Jules
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