After I saw the K scope program, and noticed its 4 quadrant symmetry, I realized in this case that they had exploited the 4 quadrant architecture to aid the K.scope image. It was almost as though the designers had decided from the start, they wanted the K.scope effect to be their very first image, so they set up their video memory mapping like this. Then it gets much more awkward later if you decide you want to display a regular picture with a linear array of pixels line by line.
In a strangely odd way, with the relatively low resolution of the Dazzler and the blocky images, it almost turns the image into a kind of "graphic electronic art" or computer based impressionism which peculiarly, adds to its charm. Not unlike the kind of simple, but oddly effective graphics, that were more common in the late 70's and early 80's.
To a large extent a lot was left to the human imagination to fill in. All of us know that a good sketch artists, with just a few lines on a page can create a human face with some emotional expression. Our minds do the rest of the work filling in the details. In many ways I like this, rather than being spoon fed visual perfection where nothing is asked of the mind to contribute.
