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Forget Pixel Art: Try Subpixels (hackaday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've lightly dabbled into subpixel art, sorta.

In my experiments, each full pixel still takes 3 subpixels, but..

If you drop a white pixel at X coordinate, it renders 0xFFFFFF on the RGB subpixels.

But drop a white pixel on X+0.33, it renders on GBR.

Drop a white pixel on X+0.67, it renders on BRG.

All three are valid white full pixels, just offset by thirds.

I guess that would more appropriately be considered 'fractional pixels' or something though. Still neat that if used properly and creatively, it can yield higher resolution graphics, of sorts...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those tricks are actually used pretty frequently in modern graphics stacks, especially around things with fine edges like text. In those cases it's called "subpixel anti-aliasing".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course that all falls apart if the display doesn't use a normal subpixel layout. OLED displays usually have an unsupported subpixel layout. Some of them even have a white subpixel that's not controllable by the computer, which makes subpixel anti-aliasing impossible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I returned my first oled because of this. It was maddening reading and writing, and made any graphic design impossible.

Bought a new one this year and they seem to have solved the problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

This image is giving me 1970s Lite Brite flashbacks.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This was a trick back in the computer hooked to your TV days. There was a higher resolution mode on my Tandy color computer. It was black and white, though. But if you alternated positions properly you could also have solid red and blue fills.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

When do we have the hipster sub-sub genre that uses a Pentile arrangement?

[–] Jolteon 1 points 1 day ago

Isn't this just pixel art in color?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like an Apple II color display.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

is mentioned in the video at the end of the article

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

no i can't