Indeed, the mask served to expose photosensitive material to deposit the phosphor dots, one color at a time.

The phosphor dots are arranged on the screen such that the beams hit only their correct phosphor.

In this way, the plate ensured that the beams were perfectly aligned with the colored phosphor dots.

In order to make this work effectively, the phosphor dots were reduced in size, lowering their brightness.

This cuts down on the electron beams spilling over onto the wrong phosphor dots.

This mask is perforated with very small holes that are aligned with the phosphor dots (or stripes) on the screen.

But it is extraordinarily difficult to squeeze two million tiny phosphor dots onto a 34-inch television screen - even a wide screen, like Sony's.

"It will be a battle," said the cancerous thing to a woman whose face was smudged with phosphor dots.

To her lower brain if not her intellect, this was a game of phosphor dots twisting in the air rather than a real battle.

Their existence was as brief as a phosphor dot.