The inventor of the pixel apologizes and he wants to fix it

[RCA]

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic ... the_square

More than 50 years ago, Russell Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. As a scientist at the National Bureau of Standards in the 1950s, Kirsch worked with the first programmable computer in the United States. Essentially they never got found the best way to portray images digitally but the square pixel was adopted. Now, Kirsch is developing a program that translates square pixel images into pixels made of a variety of shapes. This technique is making for much more crisp image.

Square pixels on the left, and Russell's technique on the right:



What if his program becomes the standard? What are the implications of consumer products? Your thoughts NICO?

[snwbrdr435]

A cure for pixelated boobie syndrome finally!

[Dattebayo]

Well it will be good for internet and most types of encoded/translated data streams, but useless for regular applications.

[wingFeather]

Kind of late in the game for this to ever catch on.

[flohtingPoint]

Russell Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer.

So wait, I'm confused. His son crash landed at Roswell? Was this picture taken before or after he was moved to Hanger 18?

[Jesda]

Would have been nice if he came up with this 15 years ago. Wolfenstein 3D would have looked better.

[MinisterofDOOM]

There's one HUGE problem with this.
All displays are based on square pixels. Even if the image is rendered in non-square pixels, it must still be displayed as square pixels. And solutions for smoothing edges in PHYSICAL square pixels have existed for ages. Apple used sub-pixel rendering to smooth fonts way back with the Apple II. These days we use more advanced anti-aliasing techniques, like color-blending at edges, but the effect is essentially the same.

Would have been nice if he came up with this 15 years ago. Wolfenstein 3D would have looked better.

I'm pretty sure when you're working with under 1MB of RAM, it doesn't matter what shape your pixels are.

[Jesda]

There's one HUGE problem with this.
All displays are based on square pixels. Even if the image is rendered in non-square pixels, it must still be displayed as square pixels. And solutions for smoothing edges in PHYSICAL square pixels have existed for ages. Apple used sub-pixel rendering to smooth fonts way back with the Apple II. These days we use more advanced anti-aliasing techniques, like color-blending at edges, but the effect is essentially the same.

Would have been nice if he came up with this 15 years ago. Wolfenstein 3D would have looked better.

I'm pretty sure when you're working with under 1MB of RAM, it doesn't matter what shape your pixels are.

Would have been a lot easier to kill Hitler if his ears weren't lego shaped. Trust me I'm a doctor.

[RCA]

So wait, I'm confused. His son crash landed at Roswell? Was this picture taken before or after he was moved to Hanger 18?

Well that was the scanned photo, not the original. But yes, after Hanger 18.

[Encryptshun]

Would have been a lot easier to kill Hitler if his ears weren't lego shaped. Trust me I'm a doctor.

Mein Leben!

[BusyBadger]

Would have been a lot easier to kill Hitler if his ears weren't lego shaped. Trust me I'm a doctor.

Mein Leben!

Actually, he says, "Eva, auf wiedersehen" when he dies, but yeah.

[dickie]

I played using the PC speaker because I am more hardcore than all of you.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I played using the PC speaker because I am more hardcore than all of you.

Sorry. I win. I played it on this:

16 color grayscale monitor.
PC speaker.
6 MHz

[PoorManQ45]

Google doesn't let anyone over 40 years old work for them.

Old people have stupid ideas...