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Exactly. Pixels are indivisible quanta, not units of any kind of distance. Saying pixel^2 makes as much sense as counting the number of atoms on the surface of
by gnfargbl 1y ago
Exactly. Pixels are indivisible quanta, not units of any kind of distance. Saying pixel^2 makes as much sense as counting the number of atoms on the surface of a metal and calling it atoms^2.
- chii 1y agoSo how does subpixels come into play under this idea of quanta?
- n0n0n4t0r 1y agoI think we'll need to use some maths from qcd lattice !
- masklinn 1y agoQuarks? They’re sub-units of hadrons but iirc they can’t be found on their own.
- starkparker 1y agoPixels then become containers and subpixels become quantfiable entities within each pixel. In the apple analogy, each crate contains three countable apples and you can count both the crates and the apples independently. This idea itself breaks down when we get to triangular subpixel rendering, which spans pixels and divides subpixels. But it's also a minor form of optical illusion, so making sense of it is inherently fraught. Maybe a pixel is just a pixel.
- dusted 1y agothey don't need to, you can have monochrome pixels too, like those on monochrome displays)