Timeline for Dot vs. Pixel - rudimentary explanation
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| Mar 15 at 9:05 | comment | added | cjs | @Tetsujin The term "dot pitch" is associated with colour CRT displays; dot pitch and pixel pitch are different things. A single pixel generally lights multiple dots of phosphor on the screen. | |
| Nov 16, 2021 at 19:15 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @4less After that, broadly, dots are (prolly) the smallest details in the image itself, depending on the magnification used by the artist or the viewer… another "helpful" complexity! Meanwhile pixels are the smallest areas of detail the paper/screens/whatever they're displayed on are capable of distinguishing, depending only on the factory definition and. nothing to do with either artist or viewer… | |
| Nov 16, 2021 at 19:10 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @4less Might it help to keep all the details on hold and first establish beyond doubt, two things: First that the levels of detail in images and the paper/screens/whatever they're displayed on are not related? Then that even if there is an international, interspecialist agreement on terminology, there's no guarantee that whoever we're talking to will use the same language? | |
| Nov 16, 2021 at 4:45 | answer | added | Mark Ransom | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 16, 2021 at 0:43 | vote | accept | Wes | ||
| Nov 16, 2021 at 0:23 | answer | added | jcaron | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 15, 2021 at 22:22 | comment | added | Flydog57 | It's worth noting that modern text rendering (on a screen) often uses "sub-pixel" elements. On a screen, a single pixel is typical made up of a triad of Red, Green and Blue (for lack of a better word) dots (sorry, different meaning) or stripes. Sub-pixel rendering takes advantage of the geometry of those sub-pixel elements to achieve a better degree of anti-aliasing. Take a look at ClearType: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype | |
| Nov 15, 2021 at 21:52 | comment | added | Peter Cordes |
@DavidConrad: indeed; this usage of "atomic" is common in computing, for example in lock-free operations like C++11 std::atomic, and database transactions (either fully happens or not at all, and other queries can't see an in-between state). Can num++ be atomic for 'int num'? / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomicity_(database_systems)
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| Nov 15, 2021 at 21:44 | comment | added | David Conrad | You don't need to know some physics, you just need to know some Greek! Atomic comes from a- tomos, which means "not cuttable", "indivisible." From Greek tmein, to cut. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDesign/status/1459989519525101568 | ||
| Nov 14, 2021 at 16:30 | answer | added | Wolff | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 14:21 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 14, 2021 at 13:59 | history | edited | Zach Saucier |
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| Nov 14, 2021 at 13:00 | comment | added | Tetsujin | For a display, the term 'dot-pitch' just rolls off the tongue better than 'pixel-pitch'. In the early days of computing, everybody knew what a dot was, but not necessarily what a pixel was… so the marketing guys came up with a buzz-word, rather than an unambiguous description. We're still suffering from this early misconception to this day, when people still think an image file can have a dpi… it can't. It doesn't get a dpi until it's actually printed. Until then, all it has is dimensions in pixels. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 8:58 | answer | added | joojaa | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 8:38 | vote | accept | Wes | ||
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| Nov 14, 2021 at 7:59 | history | edited | Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2021 at 7:56 | answer | added | Scott | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 6:21 | history | asked | Wes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |