Pixel just means picture element. Pixels also can be different shapes but squares.
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Not really, mosaics have far more shapes than just squares, and they’re not usually arranged in a grid either. Have you seen actual mosaics?
NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 days ago
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Pixel art is usually a square grid though
Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We’ll says it has to be? /s
9point6@lemmy.world 3 days ago
FWIW, pixels don’t have to be square or in a grid.
Some professional cameras take photos with hexagonal pixels, for example
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 days ago
Really? I thought the Bayer filter was near-universal, and Wikipedia does not list what you just mentioned.
Anyway, older LCDs in portable color TVs, cameras and camcorders did use that pattern but that’s on the display side.
9point6@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You prompted me to look it up and my knowledge is apparently a bit dated on that one
I’d apparently read about Fujifilm doing this with some of their older CCD based sensors and they shifted away from that ages ago!
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 days ago
So they probably didn’t output .raw images, I think those are more recent. That would have been a weird use of the file format!