History of Pixel

	Revision 12 . . (edit) November 28, 2001 7:05 am by Kwaku
	Revision 11 . . November 28, 2001 7:05 am by Kwaku [added paragraph from FOLDOC and link to 'bitmap']
	Revision 10 . . (edit) October 30, 2001 11:57 pm by Seb

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An abbreviation for "picture element," a pixel is a single cell in the grid of a bitmapped image. A rectangular collection of pixels is said to be a raster image and is used to encode digital video and to produce computer-generated art.

An abbreviation for "picture element," a pixel is a single cell in the grid of a bitmapped image. A rectangular collection of pixels is said to be a raster image and is used to encode digital video and to produce computer-generated art.

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Each pixel in a monochrome image has its own brightness, from 0 for black to the maximum value (e.g. 255 for an eight-bit pixel) for white. In a colour image, each pixel has its own brightness and colour, usually represented as a triple of red, green and blue intensities (see RGB).

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