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Digital Imaging Raster Image All Points Addressable Display Device LCD CRT

Digital images are composed of pixels, which are the smallest controllable elements that make up an image displayed on a screen. Pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional grid and each represents a sample of the original image at a physical coordinate. A pixel can represent intensity for color images through combinations of components like red, green, and blue values. The term "pixel" comes from the contraction of the words "pictures" and "element".

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Digital Imaging Raster Image All Points Addressable Display Device LCD CRT

Digital images are composed of pixels, which are the smallest controllable elements that make up an image displayed on a screen. Pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional grid and each represents a sample of the original image at a physical coordinate. A pixel can represent intensity for color images through combinations of components like red, green, and blue values. The term "pixel" comes from the contraction of the words "pictures" and "element".

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digital imaging, a pixel, pel,[1] dots, 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. Incolor 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 (from word "pictures", where it is shortened to "pics",
and "cs" in "pics" sounds like "x") and el (for "element"); similar formations with 'el' include the
words voxel,[4] texel[4] and maxel(for magnetic pixel).[5]

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