03 / SELF-EMISSIVE DISPLAY

Every pixel is a light.

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Experiment

Drive intensity90%

Layer separation85%

Signal sourceLIVE

PHOTON RINGSImages & videos stay on this device.

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Anatomy05 layers

FOLLOW THE LIGHT

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display technology · Displays

Photon Light Stories

Follow light through four display technologies, then open a layered 3D laboratory to inspect how each image is made.

Photon Light Stories presents four authored teaching scenes: a color CRT, an early transmissive LCD with a fluorescent backlight, a self-emissive phone OLED, and a mini-LED-backlit LCD. The story view follows visible causes and effects; the hardware view opens a layered, interactive WebGL model of each display.

Controls vary brightness, signal and selected layer behavior to make the relationships visible. The enlarged geometry, light paths, waveforms and image effects are explanatory animations. They are not measured optical output, device calibration, a complete circuit model or a product-specific engineering reconstruction.

The supplied laboratory offers English and Chinese story text with optional browser speech. Museum catalog metadata is translated into seven languages; the in-exhibit lessons use their supplied English or Chinese text on other language routes. No platform narrated guide is published for this exhibit.

Specifications

Displays: Color CRT, early LCD, phone OLED, mini-LED LCD
Views: Animated stories and layered 3D hardware lab
Inputs: Local image or video, built-in test signals and controls
Scope: Illustrative teaching model, not calibrated optical data

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