scan line
Horizontal image stripe
A scan line is a single horizontal line of pixels in a raster display, traced by the electron beam in old CRT monitors or rendered sequentially in modern screens.
Images build from top to bottom, one scan line at a time.
In retro gaming aesthetics, visible scan lines—the dark gaps between bright lines—evoke the look of vintage arcade monitors: The emulator has a scan line filter for authenticity.
- phosphorLight-emitting coating substance
- bandGroup playing music together
- pixelSmallest display unit
- interlaceWeave elements together
- kinescopeCathode-ray display tube
sweep · glow · CRT · monitor · refresh · stripe · overscan · electron beam · beam · television · frame rate · resolution · oscilloscope · cathode · flicker · dot · analog television · video signal
- raster graphicspixel, bitmap, pixels, raster, digital image
- sync signalssync, master clock, timecode, time code, LTC