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The document discusses two methods for producing color displays with a CRT monitor: the beam penetration method and the shadow-mask method. The beam penetration method uses red and green phosphor layers and the beam's speed determines the color. It allows only four colors and image quality is not as good. The shadow-mask method uses a metal screen to ensure each color beam hits the correct phosphor dots, allowing millions of colors and better images but is more expensive and has lower resolution and convergence issues.

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The document discusses two methods for producing color displays with a CRT monitor: the beam penetration method and the shadow-mask method. The beam penetration method uses red and green phosphor layers and the beam's speed determines the color. It allows only four colors and image quality is not as good. The shadow-mask method uses a metal screen to ensure each color beam hits the correct phosphor dots, allowing millions of colors and better images but is more expensive and has lower resolution and convergence issues.

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ADAMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING


Department of Software Engineering

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
Section 2
Group 3

Course Title: Computer Graphics


Course Code: SEng 3303

Name : Amanuel Asefa


ID : UGR/25354/14
Color CRT Monitors:

The CRT Monitor displays by using a combination of phosphors. The phosphors are different
colors. There are two popular approaches for producing color displays with a CRT are:

● Beam Penetration Method


● Shadow-Mask Method

➔ Beam Penetration Method:


Beam penetration refers to how an electron beam interacts with phosphor layers on the CRT
screen to produce colors. The screen has two layers of phosphor: red and green. The color
displayed depends on how deeply the electron beam penetrates these layers.

- When the beam moves slowly, it excites only the outer red layer, resulting in a
red color.
- When the beam moves quickly, it penetrates deeper to excite the inner green layer,
producing a green color.
- Combining these effects creates additional colors like orange and yellow.

In essence, the beam's speed determines which phosphor layer it interacts with, leading to
the limited color palette of the display.
Advantages:
1. Inexpensive

Disadvantages:
1. Only four colors are possible

2. Quality of pictures is not as good as with another method.

➔ Shadow-Mask Method:
In the shadow-mask technique:

- Electron beams pass through a metal screen with small holes known as a shadow mask.

- These beams strike phosphor dots on the screen, generating colors.

- Each beam represents a primary color (red, green, or blue).

- The shadow mask ensures that each beam hits the correct phosphor dots to display colors
accurately.
Advantage:
1. Realistic image

2. Million different colors to be generated

3. Shadow scenes are possible

Disadvantage:
1. Relatively expensive compared with the monochrome CRT.

2. Relatively poor resolution

3. Convergence Problem

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