Photography's new bag of tricks (1984)

Re:Photography's new bag of tricks (1984) by rezz on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:11PM (#36172012)

Am I the only person who was unaware that pixel was short for “picture element”?

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Re:Photography's new bag of tricks (1984) by danlugo92 on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:20PM (#36172085)

No you're not.

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Re:Photography's new bag of tricks (1984) by tines on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:55PM (#36172305)

And in the context of computer graphics, "texel" means texture element!

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Re:Photography's new bag of tricks (1984) by HyperSane on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:40PM (#36173201)

voxel is short for volume element.

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Re:Photography's new bag of tricks (1984) by _a_a_a_ on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:48AM (#36185203)

Every person starts of not knowing this, then we learn it. No problem.

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Re:Photography's new bag of tricks (1984) by dtgriscom on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:19AM (#36185376)

drexel is a university

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