Outline

This is an overview of everything that is covered in the following sections.

🧭 New — The Display Atlas: an interactive way to explore these technologies across four lenses — a comparison matrix, a trade-off explorer, a map of "display-space," and guided stories. A companion Interactive Installation Multitool covers the practical install side (screen height, sizing, ADA). (Hosted on GitHub Pages; opens outside GitBook.)

• Introduction

• Brief Notes on Standard Displays

  • LCD/Standard displays

  • LED

  • Projector

• Displays

  • Transparent

    • Transparent LCD

    • Transparent OLED

    • Transparent LED

    • Spinning Fan Displays/Persistence of Vision

    • Electroluminescent Displays

  • Modified LCD Polarizer

  • Volumetric Displays

    • Mechanical/Persistence of Vision

    • Layered screens

    • Volumetric LED

    • DIY

  • Electronic Paper/E-Ink

    • Standard

    • Sculptural/Architectural

  • Flexible Displays

    • Flexible OLED

    • Flexible LED

  • Lasers and Laser Projectors

    • Laser Projectors

    • Laser Projectors and Video Projection

    • Laser Projectors and film techniques

    • Laser Diodes and other approaches

    • Lasers and photosensitive surfaces

  • Lenticular and Multiview Displays

    • Looking Glass Displays

    • Leia/Dimenco

    • Sony Spatial Reality

    • RealFiction

    • Misapplied Sciences

    • SeeCubic

    • Multi-lens experiments

  • Light Field displays

    • Solidlight

    • Avalon Holographics

    • Fovi3d

  • Head Mounted Displays (VR/AR/Mixed Reality)

  • Circular and Non-Rectnagular

• Techniques:

  • Pepper’s Ghost

  • Projection on Static Transparent Materials/Scrims

  • Projection on Water or Fog

    • Water Screens

    • Fog Screens

  • Volumetric Projection

  • Diffusion and Distortion

    • Artistic Approaches

    • Fiber Optics

    • Ulexite/TV Stone

    • Computational Caustics

    • LED through wood veneer

    • Low Resolution Diffusion

    • Others

• Experimental/Artistic Exploration/Other

  • Physical/Mechanical Displays

    • Flip-dot

    • Split Flap

    • Other Mechanical Approaches

    • Interactive Haptics

    • Ferrofluid

  • Switchable Glass

    • PDLC

    • SPD

    • Electrochromic

    • LCD

    • Switchable Mirror

  • Drone Displays

  • Electrochromic Paint

  • Scanning fiber optics

  • Acoustic Levitation

  • Plasma Combustion

  • High Refresh Rate Displays

• Legacy/Vintage Curiosities

  • Cathode Ray Tube

  • Eggcrate and numeric displays

  • Pyrotechnics and other curiosities

• Closing Notes

• Appendix and Other References

  • Holograms and the Ideal Display

  • Misleading terms

    • Hologram

    • Autostereoscopic Displays/3D TV's

    • LED TV’s

    • 3D LED/Forced Perspective

  • Touchscreens

  • XR/"Virtual production"

  • DIY LCD Polarizer Removal

  • DIY Transparent Screens

  • Acknowledgements and Other References