How big is a pixel?

  • camtech56
    13th Aug 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    Exactly how much volume is in one pixel? Could it be a cubic centimeter or something of the such?

  • jacob1
    13th Aug 2015 Developer 0 Permalink
    It's however big you want it to be :P

    The size comparisons don't make much sense, just compare a single ELEC to a single STKM. Also some saves have the scale of solar systems, others are the size of a city. The speed of PHOT (light) doesn't make sense in any of these scales either.
  • TPT-_-
    13th Aug 2015 Member 1 Permalink

    one pixel is the size of a pixel, the size very's for all pixels sometimes pixels can be

    huge

    and sometimes they can be

    tiny

    (I hope this kind of answers you question, if not someone else probable knows)

  • RedWagon
    13th Aug 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    @camtech56 (View Post)

     <From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia>

    In digital imaging, a pixelpel,[1] or picture element[2] is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen. The address of a pixel corresponds to its physical coordinates. LCD pixels are manufactured in a two-dimensional grid, and are often represented using dots or squares, but CRT pixels correspond to their timing mechanisms and sweep rates.

    Each pixel is a sample of an original image; more samples typically provide more accurate representations of the original. The intensity of each pixel is variable. In color image systems, a color is typically represented by three or four component intensities such as red, green, and blue, or cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.

    In some contexts (such as descriptions of camera sensors), the term pixel is used to refer to a single scalar element of a multi-component representation (more precisely called a photosite in the camera sensor context, although the neologism sensel is sometimes used to describe the elements of a digital camera's sensor),[3] while in others the term may refer to the entire set of such component intensities for a spatial position. In color systems that use chroma subsampling, the multi-component concept of a pixel can become difficult to apply, since the intensity measures for the different color components correspond to different spatial areas in such a representation.

    The word pixel is based on a contraction of pix ("pictures") and el (for "element"); similar formations with el  for "element" include the words voxel[4] and texel.[4]   never mind this is a bunch of monjo jumbo, this is most likly useless

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  • Mrprocom
    13th Aug 2015 Moderator 0 Permalink
    @camtech56 (View Post)
    Do you know these small squares that appear when you zoom in in a small image? these squares are pixels.
    You can use an online tool like this one if your project requires a lot of numbers to convert (which I doubt).

    Also, a pixel doesn't have an area since it's just one single pixel, if you are talking about the pixels you see in the game, these are in a square shape, so their area should be about 0.0007cm square.
  • xetalim
    13th Aug 2015 Member 3 Permalink

    I think every 1000 pixels are about 10^3 pixels big.

    I hope that helps.

  • camtech56
    13th Aug 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    So the volume of a given pixel is dependent on the given frame of refrence, got it. I was just curious to see if there could be any given size.

     

    Edit: Also I was talking about TPT pixels...for those who didn't know. Sorry for being vague

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  • Sandwichlizard
    14th Aug 2015 Member 2 Permalink

    The volume of a pixel is ZERO.  a pixel is a 2 dimensional construct thus has no volume.

  • Mrprocom
    14th Aug 2015 Moderator 0 Permalink
    A pixel isnt even a 2 dimensional construct unless you are talking about the powder toy square pixels.
  • oldmud0
    15th Aug 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    Actually I was looking in the source to see how many bytes a pixel is (class Element). I'd have to do sizeof() though which means that I'd have to compile TPT. Ew.

    Edited once by oldmud0. Last: 15th Aug 2015