POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Monitor sizes : Re: Monitor sizes Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:20:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Monitor sizes  
From: Slime
Date: 8 Mar 2012 03:20:49
Message: <4f586be1$1@news.povray.org>
>    Monitor screen sizes do not seem to follow this trend, however, and
 > seem to grow a lot more linearly.

Assuming the supported resolution is changing proportionately, this is 
actually quadratic growth in terms of number of pixels.

This is probably limited by graphics hardware in some way (although I'm 
not sure how fast that grows in "power"). It's also limited by the fact 
that popular OSs such as Windows still use pixels as a unit of 
measurement, so there's limited benefit to higher resolutions as it 
shrinks the size of important objects on screen.

  - Slime


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