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Sunday April 1, 2007
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PARIS--A newly formed French imaging company, Fin doh! Siècle, has developed a unique LCD panel that will reinvent computer display screens, according to company spokespersons. Unveiled as the Verisimilitude 1, the company says this LCD will introduce a new sense of realism and detail that will make high definition "as obsolete as the daguerreotype."
Like the Sony eBook Reader , this screen doesn't "light up" but emulates the way real print, ink or pigment is displayed. But the folks at Fin doh! Siècle take it a step further. The images on the screen display actual texture, meaning that the slightly translucent screen itself forms patterns, via a complex series of algorithms and calculations, and then "molds" the patterns on the screen itself. This is accomplished via a thin layer of electro-magnetically charged gelatin on the surface of the screen.
"The resulting epictograph file," says Jacques Zeuxis, one of the company's visual engineers, "which is a new imaging format that will include texture notations in the file's EXIF data file, will include a z-axis. It's within this z-axis that height is introduced into the coordinates as well as other texture characteristics, including how much the texture repeats, the sharpness of the texture and contrast, as well as other features. "
In order for the new file format, also called an i-epigram, to be created and for it to mimic such patterns, the image will need to be scanned into a newly unveiled scanner, the eParrhasius. "Because these image files need to include an additional characteristic, the images or even objects, are placed within the eParrhasius chamber, or, as we in the labs like to refer to it as, the P cave," says Zeuxis, who joked that the later nickname refers to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato and his theroy or allegory of shadows appearing on the wall of a cave.
"Images or objects are then covered with a special curtain, which includes thousands of photo sensors." Zeuxis says the special CMOS sensors work in tandem with the scanner to produce the special files. "These files are then read by the display, which instantly introduces the appropriate color dye and shape for various sections of the screen," says Zeuxis.
At this time, the company says it will only introduce still textured images, but hopes to develop video in the near future. "It will do for digital imaging," says Zeuxis, "what photography in the 19th century did for image making."
The company has patented its software and firmware, in an application suite entitled, Trump Loye1.618, although at this time, it's only available for Macs. And, of course, it's only available in France. The product will be available in 2008.
Posted By:
Terry Sullivan
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