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that refresh shimmer is brutally bad, is smooth refresh completely unsolvable for e-ink?
by micromacrofoot 5y ago
that refresh shimmer is brutally bad, is smooth refresh completely unsolvable for e-ink?
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoI think it is purposeful in order to counteract ghosting. But indeed at the end of the day e-ink is suitable for slow changing content (mainly reading blocks of text).
- rychco 5y agoOddly enough, I kind of enjoy it.
- henriquecm8 5y agoIt's similar to glitching we see in scifi/cyberpunk
- micromacrofoot 5y agooh sure, it's kind of cool if you're only seeing it occasionally... but not something I'd enjoy for anything that updates more often than a powerpoint presentation (which is fine as a known limitation)
- ramses0 5y agoThink of it like a split-flap display. It physically must “rotate” something to the right color. I’m no e-ink expert, but there may always be some level of “shimmer”.
- robinsoh 5y ago> It physically must “rotate” something to the right color. I’m no e-ink expert, but there may always be some level of “shimmer”. You're thinking of gyricon where the balls rotate. That's different. The bulk of the industry now uses electrophoresis which is moving ink particles electrically.
- fortran77 5y agoThey're still moving though. And that's always going to be slower than turning an LED on.
- cubefox 5y agoIt appears unsolvable by the electrophoresis displays which E Ink makes. Since it is based on moving solid particles through a viscous liquid, which is slow.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoah exactly the detail I was wondering about, thank you