Tuesday 22 September 2015

Research Exercise:Pixel

Research Exercise
Unit 78 Digital Graphics in Computer Games Design 
Lecturer: Josh Rai


"A Pixel is not a little square!" - Alvy Ray Smith 1995

Picture Resolution: The picture resolution is the amount of pixels within a picture which will depend on what was used to take the picture such as a high end camera which can take high resolution pictures, the amount of pixels can be decreased in order to shrink the file size and allow it to be displayed on some lower resolution devices or increased for a sharper picture

Image Resolution: The image resolution is the amount of Pixels contained in an image file, The higher the amount of Pixels, the higher the quality of the image. The resolution may not be the same as the original picture as it could be decreased in order to compress the file








Intensity: Intensity is the pixel value which determines the colour and brightness of the pixel. (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/value.htm)

Pixel Element: A point in a raster image and is the smallest controllable element on the screen




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