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Arrangement of color elements in an image sensor or display
of the pixels (primary colors red, green and blue) in an image sensor or display can be ordered in different patterns, called pixel geometry. The geometric
Pixel_geometry
Type of program in computer graphics
The first video card with a programmable pixel shader was the Nvidia GeForce 3 (NV20), released in 2001. Geometry shaders were introduced with Direct3D 10
Shader
Smallest addressable element of a raster image
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element of a raster image. In a display device or dot
Pixel
Distance between RGB dots (sub-pixels) on a display
Confusion of pixels and subpixels Element spacing varying across screen area (e.g., widening in corners compared to center) Differing pixel geometries Differing
Dot_pitch
Technique for increasing apparent display resolution
resolution of a color display device. It utilizes the composition of each pixel, which consists of three subpixels of which are red, green, and blue that
Subpixel_rendering
Measure of how fine an image is
resolution: digital camera (Bayer color filter array) LCD (Triangular pixel geometry) CRT (shadow mask) 320 × 200: MCGA 320 × 240: QVGA 640 × 350: EGA 640 × 480:
Image_resolution
Series of image file formats
metadata. TIFF images are made up of rectangular grids of pixels. The two axes of this geometry are termed horizontal (or X, or width) and vertical (or
TIFF
rendering Physics engine Picture plane Pixel Pixel art Pixel-art scaling algorithms Pixel density Pixel geometry Point cloud Polygon (computer graphics)
List of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics
List_of_computer_graphics_and_descriptive_geometry_topics
Android smartphone model
the Google Pixel product line. It serves as the successor to the Pixel 9 Pro & Pixel 9 Pro XL, with a familiar design introduced with the Pixel 9 Series
Pixel_10_Pro
Addressing scheme in flat panel displays
display, known as pixels. Each pixel is attached to a transistor and capacitor that actively maintain the pixel state while other pixels are being addressed
Active_matrix
Addressing scheme for LCDs
displays are addressed using active addressing. Active matrix addressing Pixel geometry Liquid crystal display Wild, Peter J. "First-Hand Histories: Liquid
Passive_matrix
Laptop computer
the display does not use the common RGB pixel geometry for liquid crystal computer displays, in which each pixel contains three tall thin rectangles of
OLPC_XO
these z values. Thus, the algorithm must make assumptions about the sub-pixel geometry in cases in which fragment bit masks overlap in z. Carpenter, Loren
A-buffer
Technique for reducing low-resolution image distortion
OLPC XO-1 laptop's display controller. Pixel geometry affects all of this, whether the anti-aliasing and sub-pixel addressing are done in software or hardware
Spatial_anti-aliasing
Deals with digitized models or images of objects of the 2D or 3D Euclidean space
sketching, a method of drawing a curve pixel by pixel. Digital geometry heavily overlaps with discrete geometry and may be considered as a part thereof
Digital_geometry
Television placement for immersive experience
the human eye can detect pixels is not straightforward. Obviously, people's visual acuity varies greatly. But pixel geometry varies as well, in shape
Optimum_HDTV_viewing_distance
GPU whose shading hardware has equal capabilities for all stages of rendering
(GPU) where all of the shader stages in the rendering pipeline (geometry, vertex, pixel, etc.) have the same capabilities. They can all read textures and
Unified_shader_model
MTF is the Fourier Transform of the pixel geometry. For a square pixel, MTF(ξ) = sin(πξp)/πξp where p is the pixel width and ξ is the spatial frequency
Image_formation
Procedure to convert 3D scenes to 2D images
as vertex blending are possible. Freely programmable geometry shaders that modify the geometry can also be executed. In the actual rendering step, the
Graphics_pipeline
Computer graphics technique
sub-pixel displacement move towards supporting higher level geometry too. As the vendors of these renderers are likely to keep using the term sub-pixel displacement
Displacement_mapping
Component of a GPU which alters bitmap images for use as textures
piece of geometry. That is, they wrap the texture around the geometry and produce textured pixels which can then be written to the screen. Textures can be
Texture_mapping_unit
Game engine
introduced a layer that makes it easier to maintain WebRTC internally, allowing Pixel Streaming 2 plugin to began shipping with Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine 5
Unreal_Engine_5
Rendering issue in 3D modeling
overlap during pixel interpolation and comparison. Where z-fighting is caused by different transformation paths in hardware for the same geometry (for example
Z-fighting
Proportion between the width and the height of a pixel
A pixel aspect ratio (PAR) is a mathematical ratio that describes how the width of a pixel in a digital image compares to the height of that pixel. Most
Pixel_aspect_ratio
Computer graphics concept
Graphics pipeline (include Pixel pipeline) Rasterisation Open Graphics Project Clark, James (July 1980). "Special Feature A VLSI Geometry Processor For Graphics"
Geometry_pipelines
Excluding certain graphical elements from being rendered in a scene
be described using the terminology of constructive geometry. A rendering algorithm only draws pixels in the intersection between the clip region and the
Clipping_(computer_graphics)
Computer graphic techniques
circularly overlapping geometry) and the implementation is complex. Instead, order-independent transparency sorts geometry per-pixel, after rasterisation
Order-independent transparency
Order-independent_transparency
Geometric transformation
In affine geometry, uniform scaling (or isotropic scaling) is a linear transformation that enlarges (increases) or shrinks (diminishes) objects by a scale
Scaling_(geometry)
2023 Android mobile operating system
October 4, 2023. The first devices to ship with Android 14 are the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. As of July 2026[update], 13.14% of Android devices run Android
Android_14
pre-filter the geometry and textures of the scene. Note that contrary to intuition, the reconstruction filter should not be the pixel footprint (as the
Cone_tracing
Graphics subsystem by Silicon Graphics
Processor ASIC on the Geometry Board to the Ibus on the IO4 board, a part of the host system. The Geometry board is responsible for geometry and image processing
InfiniteReality
Geometric system with a finite number of points
points. A geometry based on the graphics displayed on a computer screen, where the pixels are considered to be the points, would be a finite geometry. While
Finite_geometry
Derived representation of a digital image
labels each pixel of the image with the distance to the nearest obstacle pixel. A most common type of obstacle pixel is a boundary pixel in a binary image
Distance_transform
Conversion of a vector-graphics image to a raster image
from scene geometry to pixels and does not prescribe a particular way to compute the color of those pixels. The specific color of each pixel is assigned
Rasterisation
VLSI chip
Graphics Chips: Geometry Engine". Chasing Pixels. IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved February 27, 2026. Peddie, Jon (February 5, 2021). "Geometry Engine: The
Geometry_Engine
Implementation of an ambient occlusion illumination in computer graphics
implemented as a pixel shader, analyzing the scene depth buffer which is stored in a texture. For every pixel on the screen, the pixel shader samples the
Screen space ambient occlusion
Screen_space_ambient_occlusion
Shape with four equal sides and angles
images into larger square blocks of pixels. The quadtree data structure used in data compression and computational geometry is based on the recursive subdivision
Square
Topics referred to by the same term
three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry as well as their higher dimensional generalizations Euclidean geometry, the study of the properties of Euclidean
Euclidean
bit per pixel in a contiguous 2D array; Several such parallel arrays combine to produce the a higher-bit-depth image. Opposite of packed-pixel format.
Glossary_of_computer_graphics
API used in Microsoft DirectX for 3D rendering
vertex and pixel shader stages, the API includes a geometry shader stage that breaks the old model of one vertex in/one vertex out, to allow geometry to be
Direct3D
Retail store for Google hardware products
Google Store is a hardware retail store operated by Google that sells Google Pixel devices, Google Nest products, Chromecast dongles, Fitbit devices like the
Google_Store
Partitioning a digital image into segments
multiple image segments, also known as image regions or image objects (sets of pixels). The goal of segmentation is to simplify and/or change the representation
Image_segmentation
GPU by Nvidia
predecessor (RIVA TNT2) by increasing the number of fixed pixel pipelines, offloading host geometry calculations to a hardware transform and lighting (T&L)
GeForce_256
Photo storage service
(compressed items uploaded before June 1, 2021, along with items uploaded via Pixel phones released before that date, are unlimited). Users can expand their
Google_Photos
2009 video game
PixelJunk Shooter is a shooter video game developed and published by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3. It is the fourth game in the PixelJunk series. It was
PixelJunk_Shooter
Design language developed by Google
colorful and fun design. It was gradually rolled out to Pixel phones (Pixel 6 and newer) and the Pixel Tablet, beginning in September 2025. Flat design Fluent
Material_Design
2025 Android mobile operating system
Android 16; in September 2025 it began to be deployed to Pixel phones (Pixel 6 and newer) and the Pixel Tablet. Android 16 introduces a desktop mode for tablets
Android_16
Infinitely detailed mathematical structure
in the Menger sponge, the shape is called affine self-similar. Fractal geometry relates to the mathematical branch of measure theory by their Hausdorff
Fractal
Lighting simulation software
and pixel order. As produced by the Radiance tools this always takes the form of '-Y height +X width'. After this line follows the binary pixel data
Radiance_(software)
3D computer graphics software
creating and modifying curves objects was added to Geometry Nodes; in the same release, the Geometry Nodes workflow was completely redesigned with fields
Blender_(software)
Planar movement within a Euclidean space without rotation
In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same distance in a given direction
Translation_(geometry)
2026 Android mobile operating system
The EyeDropper API allows applications to request a color value from any pixel on the display without needing broad screen-capture permissions. This is
Android_17
Company logo
typographical tweaks, with the second 'g' moved right one pixel and the 'l' moved down and right one pixel. On September 1, 2015, Google introduced a controversial
Google_logo
2021 Android mobile operating system
released to supported Google Pixel devices on October 19, 2021. The first phones to have Android 12 were the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. As of June 2026[update]
Android_12
Method in computer graphics
is a method of clipping a mipmap to a subset of data pertinent to the geometry being displayed. The technique was introduced by Christopher C. Tanner
Clipmap
Changing the resolution of a digital image
new image with a higher or lower number of pixels must be generated. In the case of decreasing the pixel number (scaling down), this usually results
Image_scaling
2024 Android mobile operating system
code was released on September 3, 2024. Android 15 was released for Google Pixel devices on October 15, 2024. As of July 2026[update], 17.19% of Android
Android_15
Web browser developed by Google
Hardware Pixel Smartphones Pixel (2016) Pixel 2 (2017) Pixel 3 (2018) Pixel 3a (2019) Pixel 4 (2019) Pixel 4a (2020) Pixel 5 (2020) Pixel 5a (2021) Pixel 6 (2021)
Google_Chrome
3D imaging device
see only left image pixels from the position of their left eye, right image pixels from the right eye. When choosing the geometry of the parallax barrier
Parallax_barrier
Screen-space shading technique
into the geometry buffer (G-buffer) using "render to texture". After this, a pixel shader computes the direct and indirect lighting at each pixel using the
Deferred_shading
Distance between pixel centers in remote sensing
is the distance between pixel centers measured on the ground. For example, in an image with a one-meter GSD, adjacent pixels image locations are 1 meter
Ground_sample_distance
2022 Android mobile operating system
immediately released for the Google Pixel series (from Pixel 4 to Pixel 6, dropping support for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3a). It was released about 4 months
Android_13
Image recognition tool developed by Google
Google Pixel 2, not yet widely available for other devices. In November 2017, the feature began rolling out into the Google Assistant for Pixel and Pixel 2
Google_Lens
Z and A) 30 million/s (50-pixel triangle with Z and A) 25 million/s (48-pixel quad with Z, A and T) 16 million/s (75-pixel triangle with Z, A, T and fog)
PlayStation 2 technical specifications
PlayStation_2_technical_specifications
GPU for mobile devices, used by Nintendo on their 3DS consoles
subdivision Some MAESTRO-2G extensions include, per-pixel lighting (where the lighting is calculated per pixel instead of per vertex), procedural texture generation
PICA200
Chatbot developed by Google
granted early access were those enrolled in Google's "Pixel Superfans" loyalty program, users of its Pixel and Nest devices, and Google One subscribers. Bard
Google_Gemini
Isomorphism of projective spaces in geometry
In projective geometry, a homography is an isomorphism of projective spaces, induced by an isomorphism of the vector spaces from which the projective spaces
Homography
Series of video cards
workload in games as of 2004 and onward to be more pixel shader and texturing oriented than geometry based. Normal and parallax mapping were replacing
Radeon_R400_series
Computer graphics method
steps, another pixel is chosen randomly from a neighborhood around the target pixel (e.g. all pixels with distance less than 30 pixels away). The sample
Path_tracing
Anti-aliasing algorithm
actual geometry, it will smooth not only edges between triangles, but also edges inside alpha-blended textures, or those resulting from pixel shader effects
Fast approximate anti-aliasing
Fast_approximate_anti-aliasing
Video-sharing platform
Hardware Pixel Smartphones Pixel (2016) Pixel 2 (2017) Pixel 3 (2018) Pixel 3a (2019) Pixel 4 (2019) Pixel 4a (2020) Pixel 5 (2020) Pixel 5a (2021) Pixel 6 (2021)
YouTube
Methodological basis for 3D CAD/CAM solid modeling and image rendering
or "traced" on their path from the focal point of a camera through each pixel in the camera sensor to determine what is visible along the ray in the 3D
Ray_casting
Specialized electronic circuit that accelerates graphics
display resolutions up to 800 × 600 pixels, a 56% increase. In 1988 SGI sold IRIS workstation graphics with 10-12 Geometry Engines and introduced the IrisVision
Graphics_processing_unit
Producing images of 3D scenes
A renderer combines rasterization with geometry processing (which is not specific to rasterization) and pixel processing which computes the RGB color
Rendering_(computer_graphics)
Shading language
interpolated to form pixels within its area; this process is known as rasterization. DirectX 10 (Shader Model 4) and Cg 2.0 introduced geometry shaders. This
High-Level_Shader_Language
Graphics subsystem by Silicon Graphics
GE7 Geometry Subsystem, RE3 Raster Engine, VM2 framebuffer and VC1 Display Subsystem. Elan Graphics can produce resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 pixels with
Elan_Graphics
Data buffer in graphics hardware
graphics hardware. The buffer is per pixel and works on integer values, usually with a depth of one byte per pixel. The Z-buffer and stencil buffer often
Stencil_buffer
Memory-saving rendering technique in which resolution of farther-away images is lowered
sampling all texels in the original texture that would contribute to a screen pixel; it is faster to take a constant number of samples from the appropriately
Mipmap
for a "surface element," analogous to a "voxel" (volume element) or a "pixel" (picture element). In 3D computer graphics, the use of surfels is an alternative
Surfel
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
information get greater geometry detail needed to determine if a pixel covers more than one polygonal object. This saves the pixel/fragment shader from having
GeForce_3_series
Color reconstruction algorithm
zippering (abrupt unnatural changes of intensity over a number of neighboring pixels) and purple fringing Maximum preservation of the image resolution Low computational
Demosaicing
Process of rending a computer graphics image
step. The list of geometry can also be sorted front to back, allowing the GPU to use hidden surface removal to avoid processing pixels that are hidden behind
Tiled_rendering
List of Android operating system versions
Android. 12L launched as part of the March 2022 security update to supported Pixel devices. The factory images for March 2022 and subsequent updates display
Android_version_history
American computer technology company
colour to a given pixel in the frame buffer. Scene hierarchy generator: This unit would read lists of triangles (or other scene geometry representations)
Caustic_Graphics
Series of video cards
(T&L) engine to perform geometry calculations, freeing up the host computer's CPU. In 3D rendering the processor can write 2 pixels to the framebuffer and
Radeon_R100_series
the pixel shaders (or unified shaders in Direct3D 10 and newer GPUs) can perform. Measured in operations/s. Vertex operations - The amount of geometry operations
List of AMD graphics processing units
List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
Cross-platform graphics API
support for GLSL 1.10. Release date: July 2, 2006 OpenGL 2.1 adds support for Pixel Buffer Objects, sRGB textures and GLSL 1.20. Before the release of OpenGL
OpenGL
Component in electronic graphics processing units (GPUs)
After the vertex engine is done working with the geometry, all the 2D calculated data is sent to the pixel engine for further processing such as texturing
Vertex_pipeline
Rendering method
knowing the position of the light source, computed the brightness of the pixel on the screen. Their publication describes a short (30-second) film "made
Ray_tracing_(graphics)
Fractal named after mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot
subdivided into a certain number of pixels. To color any such pixel, let c {\displaystyle c} be the midpoint of that pixel. Iterate the critical point 0 under
Mandelbrot_set
Study of discrete mathematical structures
in "continuous mathematics" such as real numbers, calculus or Euclidean geometry. Discrete objects can often be enumerated by integers; more formally, discrete
Discrete_mathematics
Transformation process to project images
depth. Finding matches in stereo vision is restricted by epipolar geometry: Each pixel's match in another image can only be found on a line called the epipolar
Image_rectification
Texturing technique for bumps/wrinkles in computer graphics
displacements of the surface. However, unlike displacement mapping, the surface geometry is not modified. Instead only the surface normal is modified as if the
Bump_mapping
Visual illusion of 3D scene
similar to the first example, above. In this type of autostereogram, every pixel in the image is computed from a pattern strip and a depth map. A hidden
Autostereogram
Operation in computer graphics
partial or full transparency. It is often useful to render picture elements (pixels) in separate passes or layers and then combine the resulting 2D images into
Alpha_compositing
AI accelerator ASIC by Google
On October 15, 2019, Google announced the Pixel 4 smartphone, which contains an Edge TPU called the Pixel Neural Core. Google described it as "customized
Tensor_Processing_Unit
Brand of smart laptops created by Google
manufacturer (OEM) partners included Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo; the Google Pixel team declined to comment on whether they would develop their own Googlebooks
Googlebook
Visibility in 3D computer graphics
view-ray. Effectively this approach is equivalent to sorting all the geometry on a per-pixel basis. The Warnock algorithm This algorithm divides the screen
Hidden-surface_determination
Topics referred to by the same term
ratio of a computer monitor's width to its height Pixel aspect ratio, the ratio ratio of a pixel's width to its height in a digital image Automotive engine
Aspect_ratio_(disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
meaning "relating to a plane (geometry)". Planar may also refer to: Planar (computer graphics), computer graphics pixel information from several bitplanes
Planar
PIXEL GEOMETRY
PIXEL GEOMETRY
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly northern)
English (mainly northern) : from Anglo-Norman French pel ‘stake’, ‘pole’ (Old French piel, from Latin palus), a nickname for a tall, thin man. It may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a stake fence or in a property defended by one, or a metonymic occupational name for a builder of such fences. Compare Pallister.Dutch : habitational name from places so called in North Brabant (where there is also a district called De Peel) and Dutch Limburg, from De Peel in Ravels, Antwerp province, or from Pedele in Kaggevinne and in Adorp, Brabant.German : possily a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place name.German : perhaps an altered spelling of Piel or Piehl.
Boy/Male
Greek
Greek surname. Euclid was an early developer of geometry theories.
PIXEL GEOMETRY
PIXEL GEOMETRY
Girl/Female
Muslim
Derived from zarwari
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Warrior Absorbed in Naam
Boy/Male
Hindu
Stars
Girl/Female
German
Noble; Kind
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Grassy Plain
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Fay.Southern French : variant of Fay 3.
Boy/Male
Bengali, French, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Japanese, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Charitable King; The Lord is My Light
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, Scottish
Arm of the Sea; Forest
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Dow.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Respect
PIXEL GEOMETRY
PIXEL GEOMETRY
PIXEL GEOMETRY
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n.
The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.
pl.
of Geometry
n.
A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
n.
One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.
v. t.
To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast.
n.
Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.
v. i.
To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.
n.
That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
n.
The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.
n.
the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.
a.
Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry.
a.
Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
n.
That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.
n.
That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.
n.
That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
n.
The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.
n.
Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
n.
The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.
n.
The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.
n.
A treatise on this science.