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A weird and quirky idea - CRT shaped glass/acrylic slab for LCD screens.
Maximus:
This has been running around my head for a little while now and I don't even know if the physics of the idea would even work, like I said in the title it's a bit of a weird idea but...
I'm thinking of a cast piece of uhmmmmm 'clear something' that's flat on the back and has the contour of a typical CRT screen on the front. Designed to sit flat against the surface of an LCD screen and give the curvature of a CRT, I'm wondering what effect the clear cast would have on the optics, whether you'd get any nice blooming etc.
:dunno just one of the things that popped into my head one day :dunno
charlieram:
That could be quite interesting, especially if one side had something like a fresnel lens to give the impression of scan lines.
CoryBee:
--- Quote from: Maximus on September 17, 2013, 02:24:39 pm ---This has been running around my head for a little while now and I don't even know if the physics of the idea would even work, like I said in the title it's a bit of a weird idea but...
I'm thinking of a cast piece of uhmmmmm 'clear something' that's flat on the back and has the contour of a typical CRT screen on the front. Designed to sit flat against the surface of an LCD screen and give the curvature of a CRT, I'm wondering what effect the clear cast would have on the optics, whether you'd get any nice blooming etc.
:dunno just one of the things that popped into my head one day :dunno
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I had knocked that idea around my head several times and getting a glass maker to do something like that would cost a bunch more than getting an actual CRT screen in there.
jdbailey1206:
Yeah. Glass is damned expensive. You would almost need a Monitor Magnifier matched with a plano convex piece of glass. CRT's just seem to be the way to go.
I would talk to Sjaak. In his version of Fix It Felix he made it seem as though the screen is curved. I'm sure that someone can create a program to give this illusion.
Maximus:
Yeah there are filters that do a nice job of that. This was more of an experiment in physical approaches. Perhaps clear cast acrylic? I bout it would need to be more than about 3/4" thick