The humble Pixel.

StriderX

StriderX

StriderX

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I did not really know where to put this thread, but this fits I guess.

So anyway, I want to discuss something that has recently came into my mind, it is about whether pixels will evolve or be completely wiped out by a newer technology.

As it stands now, pixels consist of the RGB format, which makes it a square, I am wonder whether it will eventually become a newer format adding in the secondary colour's, which would make the pixels Triangular.

Is it a completely redundant question? Have i misunderstood pixels at all?
 
Pixels have certainly changed in nature from fuzzy dots on a phosphor screen to the sharply defined squares on LCD displays. But the shape of a pixel really has nothing to do with its colour depth or the number of constituent colours. Also, adding extra colours such as Sharp have tried with their yellow sub-pixel based displays is a bit of a gimmick too. As long as the red, green and blue sub-pixels and achieve the purity, saturation and brightness range required to reproduce the colour gamut of the video source then that's really all that is required.

What would be interesting is a pixel-less display; something akin to a film image made from a continuously completely fluid display. JVC Hughes have something very similar for ultra-high resolution projection displays on huge screens. The one I saw demonstrated a few years ago was based on a CRT driver screen and produced the most stunning 60ft wide image with no visible pixel structure even at 10ft from the image. This one is LCD based LINK
 
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