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A weird and quirky idea - CRT shaped glass/acrylic slab for LCD screens.
BadMouth:
I'd think you'd need something with optical fiber properties, otherwise it would just look like an LCD at the bottom of a glass dome.
I remember having a rock like that once. Not sure what it was made out of. :-\
jdbailey1206:
This thread seems to show you how to achieve it with the software end. I'm just at a loss on how one would accomplish this with an lcd monitor. Physically I mean.
BadMouth:
You could heat something like this over a CRT until it took the shape of the CRT glass.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Full-Page-Magnifying-Sheet-Fresnel-Lens-3XMagnification-/250837545942?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a671533d6
If it's right up against the LCD, I guess there's a chance it wouldn't look horribly distorted.
jdbailey1206:
Just wonder if that would work BadMouth if you shot the resolution on your monitor up.
Maximus:
That's why I'm thinking it has to be cast, you need that solid piece to have the transmission quality that you are looking for, you can't have any gap between the surface of the LCD and the 'DOME'