simple lcds that can change colour how?

Jan 10, 2008 9 Replies

years ago casio had colour screen organizers, the screens could do blue green and orange but somehow they did this using the standard dot matrix character displays you see in printers, fax machines and the likes, that is, there wasn't 1 pixel per colour but the pixel elements were able to morph between colours much like the t-shirts of the 90's.



what i want to know is, what exactly was happening to get these pixels to colour shift and are these screens still available.



i notice the ipod mini uses a similar system where the screens pixels can go from blank to grey to blue. effectively greating a 4 colour screen with shading.


no. the displays i speak of can vary pixel colour indevisually of other pixels. they can dither to create psudo shading

"matt2-amstereo" wrote

no. the displays i speak of can vary pixel colour indevisually of other pixels. they can dither to create psudo shading

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Brian G

oh.ok........then the LCD is not so simple....it is more like a mini-laptop screen with backlight.

Thanks for popping up with that valuable insight, "Brian G".

Now, back in your hole please.

"Russ" wrote> ****** ____indervisually? .Wota wanker!

Thanks for popping up with that valuable insight, "Brian G".

Now, back in your hole please.

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Bg

Um, no thanks Brian - don't swing that way mate. Sorry.

yeah yeah i made a frigging typo get over it, least mine are unintentional .

no. its similar to the information displays used in consumer electronics like the 16x2 character displays that use the 8x5 pixel matrix but where the pixels can be driven to display a colour probably by adjusting pixel drive voltage or somthing. when using the furtherest colour from off, the pixel actually progresses from clear to blue then green than orange taking about 1/10th of a second. the effect is reversed when the pixel is blanking again.

remember the fish tank thermometers where the squares changed colour?

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