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The lie your screen tells you a thousand times a second, convincingly enough to call it reality.
means To show or exhibit something, whether an image on a screen, goods in a window, or a feeling on your face.
from From Old French 'despleier' ('to unfold, unfurl'), from Latin 'displicare' — 'dis-' (apart) plus 'plicare' (to fold). The root sense is literally spreading open something that was folded shut, like a banner shaken loose in the wind; the leap from 'unfurling a flag' to 'unfurling an image on glass' took centuries but kept the same gesture at its heart.
- refresh rate
- most displays redraw the whole image 60 to 240 times a second
- color trick
- pixels only make red, green, blue; your brain invents the rest
- oldest kin
- the word predates electricity by roughly 500 years
- burn-in ghosts
- static images can etch permanent shadows into OLED screens