POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Welcome to the future : Re: Welcome to the future Server Time
3 Sep 2024 17:15:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Welcome to the future  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 12 Apr 2011 15:50:22
Message: <4da4acfe$1@news.povray.org>
On 12/04/2011 08:37 PM, Warp wrote:
> Alain<aze### [at] qwertyorg>  wrote:
>> The bad:
>> Most of those components are cm sized, or monstrously huge compared to
>> electronic parts.
>
>    Guess what the size of the first transistors (well, the equivalent of
> transistors used in the first electronic computers) were.

Indeed. I gather people currently make chips for use in projectors that 
flip microscopic mirrors around, so certainly making micro-scale optics 
isn't impossible...

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