Vector Scan Graphics
ベクタースキャン / 1979–1985 / Style / Technical Expression
Game imagery drawn directly by electron beam on vector monitors: glowing wireframes suspended in black void — the tension that defined early arcade visions of the future.
Glowing wireframes / Black void / Uniform luminous lines / Geometric tension
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Asteroids and Tempest / Battlezone's military use / the influence on TRON's imagination