wats a megapixel

[Funzo6785]

I may know stuff about computers and consoles, but im an idiot when it comes to camera's. So whats a megapixel?

 

[Praetor]

Megapixel
Essentially it means 1 million pixels ... but pixelcount doesnt mean much by itself ... you also need to consider pixel density (consider 1MP but each pixel was 2inches wide .....)

 

[Funzo6785]

yea

yea but if there were a million 2" wide pixels, and you looked at it from 500 feet away... It would look relatively normal right?

 

[Cyhaxor]

well pixels are squares on your monitor... Take one LCD(TFT) monitor and one wed cloth... then wash your monitor as it open and you will see some squares.. That's pixels... One squares = One pixel!

 

[TonyBAMF]

Mega: One million (10^6)
Pixel: The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution"

 

[Don't Hack!!!]

Can A "single" pixel Host more then one color at a time? like One side red and the other side Blue. If this was avaible i belive it would improve the quality of pictures a 100 fold using less pixels.

 

[narafa]

The pixel is the smallest unit used, so it can't have more than one color, if it would have, then it would be 2 pixels beside each other Pixel density matters as Praetor said, try converting your screen resolution to an 1024x768 and you will have a higher pixel density which means higher number of pixels per square area unit or inch square. Instead of seeing 800x600 pixels on the same 17" monitor, you will see 1024x768 pixels on the same 17" area, so you eventually increased the density, which will give you a better resolution and nicer details.

 

[drzing]

your a ****ing dumb ass...lol

 

[elmarcorulz]

if you have a 17" monitor 1280x1024 would be a better suited resolution.

 

[cidViscous]

actually, that's not entirely true...

a pixel is _not_ the smallest addressable unit for making graphics on a display. with proper hardware control, partial pixels can be used to make much sharper graphics. mostly used on handheld devices, it's not an end all be all, but for certain functions, it's a beautiful thing...

each pixel is actually made of three mini-pixels--one red, one green, and one blue. normally, a pixel is considered as a whole unit, and your eye usually blends everything together, but controlling the rgb levels individually let's you pull some tricks on your eyes.

google for half pixel shading, sub-pixel rendering, antialiasing, graphics tricks on small lcd's, etc. lotta wierd stuff you can do.

anyway...

--cid

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