Gilster Deflection

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Gilster Deflection, named afterMichael Gilster, coinventer of the original cathode ray tube (CRT), is a system for generating respective X and Y beam deflection command signals as respective running binary counts in X and Y deflection counters utilizing digital computations based on the straight line expressions Y=X tan α, where α is the line slope.