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Re:Designer's guide to DPI by taw55 on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:02AM (#14339716)
I think he means that

A pixel is not a little square: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

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Re:Designer's guide to DPI by anmorgan on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:50AM (#14341130)
Fair enough, his description seems misleading. To me a pixel is a discrete RGB value, which is made up of physical components, for example:

https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=close+up+of+lcd+screen

https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=stack+up+of+lcd+screen

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