From 1c672a640cb9bac08d819105e8f812a30d82393f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Werner Almesberger Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:11:42 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] tornado/doc/README: calculate image size --- tornado/doc/README | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/tornado/doc/README b/tornado/doc/README index 903aabb..f4d083c 100644 --- a/tornado/doc/README +++ b/tornado/doc/README @@ -54,3 +54,13 @@ test firmware. CH2 (blue) is signal entering the first LED module, CH1 (yellow) is the signal exiting the last module. The absence of degradation in a 250 ns pulse suggests that we can go as fast as the MCU is able to. + + +Image size +---------- + +With a radius of 80 cm the circumference is roughly 5000 mm. +In order to obtain square pixels at the outer radius, we therefore +need 1000 lines per rotation, irrespective of speed. Each line +consists of 64 pixels or 8 bytes of data. Therefore, the full disc +needs roughly 8 kB of data while a quarter disc needs 2 kB.