[bitluni]’s laser-based display pretending to be a an old-school vector CRT. Phosphor-based displays like CRTs rely on the phosphor to emit light for a set amount of time after being activated ...

If you’re old enough to remember Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Televisions ... used individually charged wires placed just behind the phosphor screen. The tubes worked, but they were expensive ...

CRT-based monitors and TVs used this method whereby electrons were beamed (scanned) onto the phosphor coating on the screen a line at a time from left to right starting at the top-left corner.

and blue phosphor dots. When electricity is applied to them, these electron guns shoot rays onto a fluorescent screen, creating images. While new CRT monitors have not been manufactured for years ...

Used for large displays such as wall-sized advertisements on the sides of buildings, Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) is reminiscent of the CRT, but uses lasers instead of an electron gun to activate ...