At 12:39 PM -0400 8/23/06, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Take the case of the oddball aspect ratio display, like square-pixel 1280 X 1024 (1.25:1), made to sync up to standard 4:3 resolution options such as 1024 X 768. Since no one in PC-land would stand for permanent black bars when using these standard resolution settings, these displays will normally distort.
One might think one solution would be for the video drivers *not* to offer any of the standard resolution options, but only offer something close which has been modified to 1.25:1 aspect ratio. For example, don't offer 1024 X 768, but rather 1024 X 819.
That would work, unless one wants to display to scale, full frame, native 4:3 graphics.
So here is a case where square pixels don't help in preventing distortion, and where non-standard display aspect ratios conspire to create that distortion.
Regards Craig
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