Pixel
noun
A tiny square of color on a computer screen that makes up images.
The resolution of a screen is measured in pixels - more pixels means a clearer picture.
Often appears as...
- pixel resolution
- pixel density
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Technical
noun
A tiny square of color on a computer screen that makes up images.
The resolution of a screen is measured in pixels - more pixels means a clearer picture.
Often appears as...
- pixel resolution
- pixel density
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Image Quality
More pixels contribute to higher image clarity and detail but require more digital storage.
High-end cameras capture more pixels, resulting in sharper images.
Pro Tip 2/3Screen Size Relevance
Pixel density matters more than total count on screens ─ a smaller screen can have fewer pixels but still be very clear.
Although the smartphone screen is small, its high pixel density makes everything look crisp.
Pro Tip 3/3Digital Art
In digital art, 'pixel art' refers to a style where images are created on the pixel level for a retro aesthetic.
The video game's graphics are made in a pixel art style, reminiscent of the '90s.
Pro Tip 1/3Image Quality
More pixels contribute to higher image clarity and detail but require more digital storage.
High-end cameras capture more pixels, resulting in sharper images.
Pro Tip 2/3Screen Size Relevance
Pixel density matters more than total count on screens ─ a smaller screen can have fewer pixels but still be very clear.
Although the smartphone screen is small, its high pixel density makes everything look crisp.
Pro Tip 3/3Digital Art
In digital art, 'pixel art' refers to a style where images are created on the pixel level for a retro aesthetic.
The video game's graphics are made in a pixel art style, reminiscent of the '90s.
Pro Tip 1/3Image Quality
More pixels contribute to higher image clarity and detail but require more digital storage.
High-end cameras capture more pixels, resulting in sharper images.
Pro Tip 2/3Screen Size Relevance
Pixel density matters more than total count on screens ─ a smaller screen can have fewer pixels but still be very clear.
Although the smartphone screen is small, its high pixel density makes everything look crisp.
Pro Tip 3/3Digital Art
In digital art, 'pixel art' refers to a style where images are created on the pixel level for a retro aesthetic.
The video game's graphics are made in a pixel art style, reminiscent of the '90s.
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The beauty of data...
a year and this little pixel in the corner three billion that's their climate change fund Americans incredibly generous people over three hundred billion a year donated to charity every year compared with the amount of foreign aid given by the top seventeen industrialized nations at one hundred
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The unexpected math...
From the curves measured for pixel separations, they concluded that paintings from Van Gogh's period of psychotic agitation behave remarkably similar to fluid turbulence. His self-portrait with a pipe, from a calmer period in Van Gogh's life, showed no sign of this correspondence.
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Genghis Khan’s Lost...
in which one pixel is less than half a meter in resolution. I've got literally a lifetime of work to do just to sift through this data to find that tiny fragment of information that might be weird. This is my data, right. Can I have people help me find something like a tomb of
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How math saved my life PIPE...
how the television worked I said little rectangle pixels they change color and as they change color that changes the picture well right as I said that a kershel came on with a big o and you know how kids sometimes see right to the core of a problem she said
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Animation basics:...
Wherever there is an object, there is an opportunity to make it come to life. When humans are used in stop motion animation, that's called pixilation, a term coined in the mid-twentieth century, well before the word pixel was a part of our vocabulary.
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The thrilling potential...
that fit in our pockets. Why can I not remove this confine and take that to my everyday objects, everyday life so that I don't need to learn the new language for interacting with those pixels? So, in order to realize this dream,
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The dawn of the age of...
from behind a screen. Today, we spend most of our time tapping and looking at screens. What happened to interacting with each other? I don't know about you, but I feel limited inside this 2D world of monitors and pixels.
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The Artists PIPE Think Like...
The residents’ paintings are all squares that come in different sizes, all an odd number of pixels across. Helper-bots pick up the finished portraits and hang them in public places for everyone to admire.
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How we teach computers...
by converting lights into a two-dimensional array of numbers known as pixels, but these are just lifeless numbers. They do not carry meaning in themselves. Just like to hear is not the same as to listen,
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Wii remote hacks PIPE...
the camera sees the infrared dot, and I can register the location of the camera pixels to the projector pixels. And now this is like an interactive whiteboard surface.
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The beauty of data...
a year and this little pixel in the corner three billion that's their climate change fund Americans incredibly generous people over three hundred billion a year donated to charity every year compared with the amount of foreign aid given by the top seventeen industrialized nations at one hundred
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The unexpected math...
From the curves measured for pixel separations, they concluded that paintings from Van Gogh's period of psychotic agitation behave remarkably similar to fluid turbulence. His self-portrait with a pipe, from a calmer period in Van Gogh's life, showed no sign of this correspondence.
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Genghis Khan’s Lost...
in which one pixel is less than half a meter in resolution. I've got literally a lifetime of work to do just to sift through this data to find that tiny fragment of information that might be weird. This is my data, right. Can I have people help me find something like a tomb of
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How math saved my life PIPE...
how the television worked I said little rectangle pixels they change color and as they change color that changes the picture well right as I said that a kershel came on with a big o and you know how kids sometimes see right to the core of a problem she said
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Animation basics:...
Wherever there is an object, there is an opportunity to make it come to life. When humans are used in stop motion animation, that's called pixilation, a term coined in the mid-twentieth century, well before the word pixel was a part of our vocabulary.
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The thrilling potential...
that fit in our pockets. Why can I not remove this confine and take that to my everyday objects, everyday life so that I don't need to learn the new language for interacting with those pixels? So, in order to realize this dream,
Video examples
The dawn of the age of...
from behind a screen. Today, we spend most of our time tapping and looking at screens. What happened to interacting with each other? I don't know about you, but I feel limited inside this 2D world of monitors and pixels.
Video examples
The Artists PIPE Think Like...
The residents’ paintings are all squares that come in different sizes, all an odd number of pixels across. Helper-bots pick up the finished portraits and hang them in public places for everyone to admire.
Video examples
How we teach computers...
by converting lights into a two-dimensional array of numbers known as pixels, but these are just lifeless numbers. They do not carry meaning in themselves. Just like to hear is not the same as to listen,
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Wii remote hacks PIPE...
the camera sees the infrared dot, and I can register the location of the camera pixels to the projector pixels. And now this is like an interactive whiteboard surface.
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
Sword and Sworcery' takes you into a world of mystery and music. With sword and shield in hand, the one thing you really need to worry about is getting lost in the vivid pixel artwork. For those of you who have not had the privilege of taking on this journey, truly do yourself a favor and down load 'Sword and Sworcery' on the closest PC.
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Tali Lennox
British Model
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Greg MacGillivray
American Director
Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place, one frame totally different from the next. So your edges are coolly sharp and have a different feeling, an organic feeling rather than this mechanic feeling you get with digital.
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Jill Tarter
American Scientist
I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and different phase shifts - it's as if I were picking out up to eight individual pixels in this large field of view.
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Brendan Iribe
American Businessman
We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems.
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Juergen Teller
German Photographer
You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.
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Andy Serkis
English Actor
People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.
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Harmony Korine
American Director
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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Jensen Huang
Taiwanese Businessman
Some people say the network is the computer. We believe the display is the computer. Anywhere there's a pixel, that's where we want to be.
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Brian Celio
American Novelist
Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
Sword and Sworcery' takes you into a world of mystery and music. With sword and shield in hand, the one thing you really need to worry about is getting lost in the vivid pixel artwork. For those of you who have not had the privilege of taking on this journey, truly do yourself a favor and down load 'Sword and Sworcery' on the closest PC.
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Tali Lennox
British Model
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Greg MacGillivray
American Director
Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place, one frame totally different from the next. So your edges are coolly sharp and have a different feeling, an organic feeling rather than this mechanic feeling you get with digital.
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Jill Tarter
American Scientist
I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and different phase shifts - it's as if I were picking out up to eight individual pixels in this large field of view.
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Brendan Iribe
American Businessman
We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems.
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Juergen Teller
German Photographer
You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.
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Andy Serkis
English Actor
People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.
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Harmony Korine
American Director
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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Jensen Huang
Taiwanese Businessman
Some people say the network is the computer. We believe the display is the computer. Anywhere there's a pixel, that's where we want to be.
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Brian Celio
American Novelist
Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
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