Vectorscope Porn

[Karl W4KRL]

>From Hackaday:

*German weekend late-night comedy show “Neo Magazin Royale” has a bunch of
super-nerds behind the screens in the production studio. This is apparently
what they do when they’re (not) working: making test screens that render as
multiple animations on their test equipment.*

*While others out there are limited to displaying cool graphics on
oscilloscopes, these guys have vectorscopes and waveformer monitors. A
vectorscope is like an oscilloscope in X-Y mode, but with one screen that
decodes the color space and one screen for the audio (in stereo). A
waveform monitor that plots out the brightness levels of a test image.
Normal studio techs use these to calibrate their colors, brightness, and
audio levels.*

*Apparently, these guys programmed a custom test screen that would: a)
encode a small animation of a 20-sided die spinning around the show’s logo
in the color channel b) encode the show’s logo in the left and right sound
channels, and c) their production company’s logo in the screen’s
brightness.*

*At the end of the video, the director Patrick (in the glasses) admits that
they've spent about three months working on this project and everyone
starts laughing. “And who gets anything from this? Nobody!” says the show’s
host.*

Video:
https://vimeo.com/121883221

Article:
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/14/nerdalert-german-tv-producers-amazing-vectorscope-animations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29


*73 Karl W4KRL*
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