Vector Imagery

[Don Y]

Tim Shoppa wrote:
>>> I built this, added some knobs to twiddle the parameters,
>>> and hooked it up to a 10" X-Y display and am very happy :-).
>> It'd look nice on a Tek 555 'scope sat on top of the Elliott 803 at the museum :-)
> 
> I highly recommend it!
> 
> Historically a lot of chaos research even in the 80's was in fact done
> with analog computers. It certainly is more fun to move wires around
> a plugboard and tweak knobs and see the result on the scope, as compared
> with editing computer code or point-and-drool with a mouse and then
> running it and then seeing the picture!

I built a two player (team) football game in the early 70's
out of analog computers (integrators, adders, etc.).  It was
wicked cool sprawled out on a 4'x8' sheet of plywood.  One
of those "guaranteed 'A'" projects that teachers drool over...