Having always been the guy behind the camera, I have now stepped IN FRONT of the wretched thing. My big project for 2025 is to start learning how to tell stories with video. Here's my first attempt, taking its start in complex math established in 1905, the evolution of its practical application into stuff we use every day on our computers. Be warned, it's about 10m 30s long.
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Slowly wrapping my mind around how to work with text on an analogue XY-display.
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A rabbit-hole that exerts a strong pull, but so far I have been able to resist it: the history of techniques to display alphanumeric characters on cathode ray tubes.
This picture may very well be from the first fully electronic method proposed, invented at the Automatic Telephone and Electric Company in Liverpool in 1947. All glyphs are generated from sine-wave-like curves, truncated in different ways.
