I think there's plenty of modern pixel/block art that's awesome, http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/05/episode-002-why-is-he-in-the-lead-anyway/ http://www.nuk

I think there's plenty of modern pixel/block art that's awesome, http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/05/episode-002-why-is-he-in-the-lead-anyway/ http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/05/episode-002-why-is-he... as an early example. But we should appreciate modern pixel artwork as a cool retro-themed anachronism, not an actual representation of what displays rendered in the past. The idea that a pixel is only a 2D square gets in the way of that -- ideally, people could understand that it refers to both a point sample as well as a box-filtered rendering of that sample, and those two senses imply different ways to view a set of pixels.