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How have they managed to get such smooth video/scrolling on an e-ink screen? All the other things I've seen have this jarring black flash every refresh.
by promiseofbeans 2y ago
How have they managed to get such smooth video/scrolling on an e-ink screen? All the other things I've seen have this jarring black flash every refresh.
- aidenn0 2y agoThe flash kind of "resets" each pixel. You can update without the flash (and some e-readers support this) but artifacts slowly accumulate. In the video they show a mode where it is B&W while scrolling, but after stopping the scroll it flashes and renders in gray-scale. The narrator mentions several possible modes; noting that 16-shade gray-scale is too slow for any interactive use (including typing), but 4-shade can allow typing and B&W can allow fast scrolling &c.
- toast0 2y agoThey discuss a lot of this in their linked readme: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider?tab=readme-ov-file#low-latency-drive https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider?tab=readme-ov-file#low-...