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fluidcruft
29 days ago
I thought px was an abbreviation of pixel which doesn't have a dimension?
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Tagbert
29 days ago
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.
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ethmarks
29 days ago
Does the pitch describe the distance between the edges of the pixels or between the centers?
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aptly_yclept
28 days ago
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
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Tagbert
28 days ago
center to center.
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