Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The basic unit of a digital image, representing a single color or level of brightness.
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- noun One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an
image in acomputer 'smemory .
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- noun (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surrounding the pixel is a trench cut into the polymer that contains air or oil.
Vogue on Your eReader? New E-paper Tech Will Make It Happen 2009
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Every pixel is a silicon mini-capacitor built in layers that collects the electrons.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 - Illustrated Presentation 2009
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(After all, a stuck pixel is difficult to see when one is viewing static.)
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brilliant and very interesting talk about moral code and cheating 2009
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That is, take the y coordinate of the leftmost pixel, compute x = Ay + B, and determine if the x-coordinate of the leftmost pixel is greater than x + 50.
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Since the '70s, plenty of artists have worked in pixel mosaic, but Campbell was more attracted to the the question Harmon was asking: How low resolution can an image or video be before we no longer recognize what's going on?
The Art of Jim Campbell: Seeing In Pixels - Boing Boing 2009
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Do the same for the right side, except determine if the rightmost pixel is to the left of the approximated right margin, and set reapproximateRight, and remove the line whose rightmost pixel is the farthest past the left.
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Remove the line whose leftmost pixel is the farthest past the right of the approximated left margin from the left side array.
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I just wanted to see the fantastic in pixel form, I guess.
"Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall." aliceoddcabinet 2010
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For the left side, for each line in the left side array, determine if the leftmost pixel is to the right of the approximated left margin by more than some threshold (I chose 50).
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Increasing the number of times that the pixel is refreshed can help.
born2badored commented on the word pixel
the cat who walks through walls, as I grok it
December 7, 2006