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If you cannot differentiate the smallest visible unit of the screen, the pixels, then what do you actually differentiate? Surely nothing related to screen resol

• mason55 14y ago
  I think there needs to be some clarification as to what "seeing the pixels" means. If you lean in close enough you can actually see the individual RGB components. Further back and you can see the separation between pixels still. Even further back and you can make out the difference between something that's aliased and anti-aliased. When someone says you can "see the pixels" I think of the second level there, where you can see gaps between the individual pixels. However upping the resolution can help decrease the jagginess in things like non-anti-aliased text.
  • pja 14y ago
    This is not about being able to see the gaps between the pixels. Anti-aliased vs not anti-aliased I'll grant you, because the whole point of anti-aliasing is to approximate what the eye would see if it really was averaging a real image over the solid angle taken up by each individual pixel.
• leviathant 14y ago
  On my iPhone4, even though it's a 'retina' display, I can still notice the stair-stepping in movement. Still photos look great, but from a video perspective, 'retina' isn't necessarily an accurate descriptor. This is less true of full-motion video than it is of scrolling in an application. As thrilled as I am about pixel density on modern portable devices, it will benefit them to go higher still. The returns are diminishing, but they are there.
  • pja 14y ago
    Does the iPhone still drop the texture resolution when it's scrolling? (I haven't looked closely at anything recent.)