11 Apr
2009
11 Apr
'09
11:34 a.m.
I beg to differ. There is nothing that would preclude mounting say six long
skinny front surface mirrors into a hex configuration ( as viewed from the
This is basically what goes on inside the optical block of a laser
printer, of course.
side ) onto a motor shaft and spinning it pretty damn
fast ( below such
point that it would fly apart ). I've seen a variation of this theme used in
some of the UPC scanners, but those have no need to spin fast.
Sure, if you wand a raster scan. The OP was talking about a vector
display IIRC, where you need to be ale to deflect the beam in a
non-regualr way. That's a lot harder to do quickly.
-tony