I apologize for yet another AE thread, I am looking for any thoughts/comments from AE or any other LCD projector users regarding individual color stripe elements in LCD pixels.
Here is a link that explains what this means in case you are not familiar with this technology:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ame=%20&fsize=
I have been playing with changing the Effects in my Xp machine from regular to Cleartype (control panel->Display->Appearance->Effects, use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts ClearType) and walking up to the screen I can clearly see what this article is explaining (take a look at the change in a capital "A"). It seems clear to me that the AE is able to vertically use individual RGB pixel elements, but I was wondering if anybody knew how to approach this more scientifically.
While I was closelly examining the pixels I noticed that the ability of the AE to use individual elements vertically inside a pixel paled compare to its ability to create vertical lines that are _less_ than the height of a pixel, and this completelly baffles me. Try looking at a horizontal black line that keeps getting smaller untill it fades, it's width clearly becomes lesser than the height of the pixel and it can keep on getting thinner untill it disapears. Does anybody know how an lcd pixel can do this? in the vertical effect we can clearly see green and blue pixel elements, but this does not seem to be the case for horizontal lines.
I was also hoping that somebody with a DLP projector can take a look at cleartype fonts and confirm that DLPs are also able to separate rgb pixel elements.
Thank you.
Here is a link that explains what this means in case you are not familiar with this technology:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ame=%20&fsize=
I have been playing with changing the Effects in my Xp machine from regular to Cleartype (control panel->Display->Appearance->Effects, use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts ClearType) and walking up to the screen I can clearly see what this article is explaining (take a look at the change in a capital "A"). It seems clear to me that the AE is able to vertically use individual RGB pixel elements, but I was wondering if anybody knew how to approach this more scientifically.
While I was closelly examining the pixels I noticed that the ability of the AE to use individual elements vertically inside a pixel paled compare to its ability to create vertical lines that are _less_ than the height of a pixel, and this completelly baffles me. Try looking at a horizontal black line that keeps getting smaller untill it fades, it's width clearly becomes lesser than the height of the pixel and it can keep on getting thinner untill it disapears. Does anybody know how an lcd pixel can do this? in the vertical effect we can clearly see green and blue pixel elements, but this does not seem to be the case for horizontal lines.
I was also hoping that somebody with a DLP projector can take a look at cleartype fonts and confirm that DLPs are also able to separate rgb pixel elements.
Thank you.