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by fluidcruft 29 days ago
I thought px was an abbreviation of pixel which doesn't have a dimension?
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Pixels have pitch, which is the distance between pixels. That is what is usually meant when talking about px as a measurement. It is analogous to dpi or ppi or the metric version.
Does the pitch describe the distance between the edges of the pixels or between the centers?
To expand on what the previous said, here's a link to a seminal paper on pixels - "A pixel is not a little square" by Alvy Ray Smith. https://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
center to center.