Netusite nekdo jak fungovalo to pero? U rastrovych CRT displayu je v hrotu fototransistor ktery vysle impuls v okamziku kdy pod nim proleti papersek cimz se z X a Y citacu zjisti poloha hrotu.
U vektorove obrazovky to ale tak jednoduche nebude, kdyz v nekterych mistech paprsek vubec nekresli. Mozna ze se k tomuto ucelu pouzival ten kriz co se vykresloval jako kursor. Jenze na zacatku se nejak muselo zjisit kam ukazuju a to by znamenalo pokazde, kdyz pocitac ztrati polohu pera, proscanovat cely display, coz by vedlo k neprijemnemu bliknuti.
Ale kdovi, mozna prisli na neco chytrejsiho.
Jestli jsem to spravne pochopil, tak se nejprve musi zmacknout funkcni tlacitko, napriklad „Draw line“.
Potom se na obrazovce ukaze zamerovaci kriz, na ktery se musi polozit svetelne pero a nasledne se provadi klasicky drag (pero se muze trosku zvednout, protoze ma „reflektorek“, ktery neztrati zamereni).
Sutherland ve sve praci popisuje, jak se udrzuje zamereni tohoto krize, ten totiz musi svetelne pero sledovat. Pri vyssi rychlosti posunu pera se asi zamereni ztrati.
Tady je citace:
„In order to follow normal motions of a hand held light pen I have found
it necessary to redisplay the tracking cross about 100 times per second, taking 1
millisecond per display. When the cross is being “dragged” across the screen at
the maximum speed I have achieved, successive crosses are displayed about
0.2 inches apart and the maximum pen speed is thus 20 inches per second
which has proven quite enough for the experiments conducted. If the light
pen is moved faster than that, the tracking cross will fall entirely outside of its
field of view and tracking will be lost. I use the loss of tracking as the so-called
termination signal for all pen tracking operations.
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