Mosaics are analog pixel art

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You got it backwards:

  Pixel artworks are digital mosaics.

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not quite, pixel art is just a subset of mosaics.

      So every pixel art is a mosaic, but not every mosaic is pixel art.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For a traditional broadcast redrawing every pixel per frame, definitely. Is it still a mosaic when compression algorithms prevent redrawing certain sections though? Does it then become mixed media?

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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?

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  • 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

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    • 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.

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  • NachBarcelona@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pixel just means picture element. Pixels also can be different shapes but squares.

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pixel art is usually a square grid though

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pixel purists say pixels have to be in a square or rectangular grid. Stitching is a good analog example.

  Anyway, there are digital systems with other layouts:
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137757955
  Early pocket color LCD TVs, cameras and camcorders would use hexagonal grids similar to shadow mask CRTs’ phosphor dots.

  By the way, neither color CRT phosphor dots nor stripes are pixels because they’re not individually addressable. In fact, depending on the beam’s position, a single phosphor dot can represent a gradient, and on B/W CRTs the whole screen is a single phosphor-covered surface.

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