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Circling the Square
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Interesting article about the pixel and it's origins, and how the inventor of pixels wishes that he hadn't created them square.

Quote:“Squares was the logical thing to do,” Kirsch says. “Of course, the logical thing was not the only possibility … but we used squares. It was something very foolish that everyone in the world has been suffering from ever since.”
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/...the_square

Now 50 years later, he's making amends by working on a new algorithm using variable sized pixels and applying them to imaging technology.

Quote:Kirsch’s method assesses a square-pixel picture with masks that are 6 by 6 pixels each and looks for the best way to divide this larger pixel cleanly into two areas of the greatest contrast. The program tries two different masks over each area — in one, a seam divides the mask into two rough triangles, and in the other a seam creates two rough rectangles. Each mask is then rotated until the program finds the configuration that splits the 6-by-6 area into sections that contrast the most. Then, similar pixels on either side of the seam are fused.
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Try as he may, I'll never forgive him...
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