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Re:Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Obs... by PeanutNore on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:36PM (#18700940)
What exactly do you mean by "render only as a single pixel"? With a low enough resolution sensor, the sun would render as a single pixel when observed from earth.
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Re:Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Obs... by stcredzero on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:37PM (#18702907)
A guy who worked at the undergraduate computer lab when I was in college in the 90's was bemused by all of the print samples and signs by the laser printers, so he made his own:

The caption read, "This is Chris rendered in one color at 1 DPI on the Dinotronic," underneath a 7x7 monochrome portrait of himself.

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