Discovering the Complex Technology Behind Analog CRT Televisions Through Emulator Configuration

I got a handheld emulator console as a Christmas gift. Configuring shaders that emulate crt TVs, I realized I had no mental model of how those TVs worked at all.

I'm used to 'pixels are three little lights combining rgb colors', which doesn't work here, so I went on a rabbit hole and let me tell you, analog TVs are extremely impressive tech.

Getting an electron beam to hit a glass, making the chemicals on it spark, covering it in a 'reading motion' for hundreds of lines, and doing that 60 times a second!

And the beam is oriented by just careful usage of magnets. It sounds super sci-fi for...