At 03:50 PM 12/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Clay Cowgill wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hmmmm. Well, I can put off the decision for a while. I want to just be
>> able to generate vectors on my o'scope first. ;-)
>>
>> -Clay
>
>A while back, I hooked up my sound card to my scope, and wrote a WIN32
>program to output vector data in packaged in sound data buffers. It was
>actually wildly successful. The program drew a 3D rotating cube.
>
>I never got around to hooking up a second sound card for Z axis control,
>but it would have worked well, I'm sure.
>
>One problem I had was that sound cards are built to filter the DC
>component out of the signal, so I was unable to just draw a dot in some
>random location. I had to make sure the signal had a large AC component
>for things to look correct.
>
>Anyway, it was just a fun experiment.
>
>Joel-
>
No offense, but where do ya'll come up with all this free time? If I had
time like that I probably wouldn't have a sea of broken sega vector games
in my house.
Mit
btw : I'm not even married :)
Received on Tue Dec 9 15:08:52 1997
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