Raster Scan and Random Scan Systems

Raster Scan
A Raster scan CRT works much like a television set. Light occurs when an electron beam stimulates a phosphor.

Principle of Raster Scan Systems

In Raster scan, the electron beam from electron gun is swept horizontally across the phosphor.

After each horizontal sweep the beam is moved. After the bottom line is swept, the beam returns to the top and the sweep process begins again.

DIAGRAM

SCANLINE HORIZONTAL RETRACE

VERTICAL RETRACE

The lines numbered as 0,1,2,3,4,5..10 represent lines that the electrons beam is painting on the screen from left to right.

When the beam reaches the right side of the bottom line, it has to move back to the upper left corner of the screen.

Horizontal retrace is used to refer to the beam moving back to the left at the end of each line. Vertical retrace refers to the movement from bottom to top.

HORIZONTAL RETRACE

VERTICAL RETRACE

INTERLACING
The screen is painted 60 times per second but only half of the lines are painted per frame. For example: Very odd-numbered lines, alternating back for forth between evennumbered and odd-numbered lines on each pass. The entire screen, in two passes, is painted 30 times every second.

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PROGRESSIVE SCANNING

The alternative to interlacing is called progressive scanning, which paints every line on the screen 60 times per second.

Most computer monitor use progressive scanning because it significantly reduce flicker.

Random Scan

In a Random scan system, also called vector, stoke writing, or calligraphic the electron beam directly draws the picture.
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WORKING

Here the electron gun of a CRT illuminates points and / or straight lines in any order. The display processor repeatedly reads a variable display file defining a sequence of X,Y coordinates the electron gun the whole display area is updated many times a second from image data held in raster memory.

Advantages of random scan:

Very high monitor.

resolution,

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Easy animation, just draw at different position. Requires little memory.

Disadvantages:

Requires intelligent electron beam, i.e., processor controlled. Limited screen density before have flicker, cant draw a complex image. Limited color capability

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