The first test patterns I ever saw were slapsticky meta-jokes mixed into after-school cartoons. Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck might walk off frame and into one. Or they appeared as dated references in movies made before I was born, archaic technologies of a visual analog past. I have a vague memory of seeing the standard, vertical color bars of a test pattern late one night, but this could be one of those half-invented memories tumbled out of a... More >>>