ProgrammerAtArms ([info]asciilifeform) wrote,
@ 2008-06-01 12:42:00
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Current location:Console (Humanoid)
Current mood: hungry

Foolish Humans and More
Recently, someone has seen it fit to link my site from YC News. My very modest web host groans under the strain, and I half-expect a raging mob (having taken up the pitchforks upon finding nothing to download) at my doorstep any moment now.

In other news, organic chemistry lecture starts on Tuesday. I've dreamed of taking the class for many years, and at last the time has come.

The campus is quite beautiful in its summer bloom,  but this hardly explains the pathological amounts of time I've been spending there in recent times, setting up shop on random benches and tables. Something about seeing the old familiar walls switches my brain into gear. It "feels like home" - and I have never been in the habit of abusing that phrase.

In other^2 news, I have discovered a means whereby ordinary laptop screens may be viewed legibly in very bright sunlight. The experimental prototype is 80% complete, and will hopefully stop eating my attention and desk space in the very near future.


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(Anonymous)
2009-08-25 05:40 am UTC (link)
"In other^2 news, I have discovered a means whereby ordinary laptop screens may be viewed legibly in very bright sunlight. The experimental prototype is 80% complete, and will hopefully stop eating my attention and desk space in the very near future."

I am infinitely intrigued.

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[info]asciilifeform
2009-08-25 12:06 pm UTC (link)
Dear Anonymous,

The idea was to sync both lenses in a pair of shutter glasses (normally used for 3D gaming) with the flicker of the CCFL tubes in the backlight - such that the shutters are only clear at the time in the duty cycle when the screen is emitting light, and black otherwise. This would reduce the amount of sunlight glare which reaches the user's eyes.

Naturally this no longer works with recent laptops, which use LED lighting. The latter also flicker, when set to less-than-full brightness, but this flicker is at too high a frequency for shutter glasses (which top out around 120Hz.) After I upgraded to such a laptop, I largely lost interest in the project.

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(Anonymous)
2009-08-25 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Only a few ThinkPads use LED backlights and I don't think many Dells or HPs do; in fact, really only Apple have ubiquitous LED notebook displays.

That sounds very interesting; any downsides? Flickering? Discolouration?

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