Vector graphics looked better (colored)

vector graphics looked better (colored)
why isn't everything vector graphics
is it because gates et all were too stupid to work out the math?

Because raster graphics are much easier to fill in.

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Because it's extremely difficult to make a color vector display, and converting vector graphics into a raster required a shitton of discrete logic back in the day.

vs ... I'm trying to find the color asteroids there was ... asteroids became a larger screen with spacehips that linked together.

vector graphics looked better ...

op doesn't realize that when you put a vector on a screen it becomes rasterized to the dot pitch and thus vector graphics is irrelevant

wat a nub

there were color vector displays - they worked 100% .. asteroids was in color .. there were all kinds of improvements on asteroids 1.. it looked amazing

>monochrome displays have physical dots/pixels
Typical quality post from Sup Forums

those displays operated differently. they weren't 'rasterizing'. the original vector displays.

vector monitor = scope

A vector monitor or vector display is a display device used for computer graphics up through the 1970s. It is a type of CRT, similar to that of an early oscilloscope. In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels as in raster graphics. The electron beam follows an arbitrary path tracing the connected sloped lines, rather than following the same horizontal raster path for all images. The beam skips over dark areas of the image without visiting their points.

they musta been faster

note how shit asteroids looks rasterized, vs vectors

vectors have a way of communicating info simpler, direct

> being this contrarian
> not realizing phosphorus atoms have a size

it's the year 2017 + 0.0206027672

Shut up you cringey hipster twat.

Televisions were raster based since the beginning because people wanted to see video not wireframe polygons. All the early microcomputers and game consoles had to use raster graphics so people wouldn't have to buy a special vector TV. The only exception was the Vectrex which was a costly financial failure as a result.

Doesn't this rely on an electron beam? Aka couldn't work on a flatscreen? I assume that's why no one uses them anymore.

It was called Asteroids deluxe. There were other color vector arcade games like Tempest. If you've only ever played them emulated you might not be aware of just how bad the color was. Tempest used a CRT shadow mask which made all the lines a flickery rainbow that would be the intended color a bit more often than others.

Asteroids deluxe used a penetration technique. That's where there's two layers of phosphor A strong electron beam lights up both; a weak lights up only one. It was limited to blue and teal from one layer being blue phosphor and the other being greenish.

Simulating curves is a problem. In the olden days it didn't matter since raster was big blocks.

>Vectrex
I swear the original Macintosh case ripped off the Vectrex case.

Nobody used vector displays for decades before the advent of LCDs due to their extremely limited usage scenarios - they can display high quality monochrome line-art, but anything else is either terrible (text) or impossible (filled shapes, photos).

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not sure if the one with ships linked by bars was called 'asteroids deluxe'

Space duel is the best vector game.

because cost-effectiveness constraints are a bitch and putting somewhat prettier graphics into a system that's going to be used primarily for number crunching and other information processing tasks is fucking stupid and an absolute waste of time and money

he never said it was impossible, he said it was expensive as shit to implement and thus unsuitable for mainstream computing, which it was