John Nack on Adobe : “Pixel Rain”

“Pixel Rain”

Hmmâ€"I’d never heard this metaphor when speaking about the amount vs. top quality of pixels on a sensor, but I like it. Here’s HTC’s Symon Whitehorn speaking about their shift from 8 to four megapixels:

This debunks the so-known as “megapixel myth,” which suggests that a lot standard motor items sc28 sensing unit more megapixels equals a greater image. “The old analogy that the market employs is known as pixel rain, so you can envision photons coming down as rainâ€"with photon rain being collected in buckets with the buckets being the pixel,” states Whitehorn. “Now you could set a lot of tiny cups out and attempt to acquire the same quantity of rain and you wind up receiving noise between the cups as opposed to it all slipping into one particular huge bucket.”

Of training course, now I kind of want to see some cheeky artist consider this not ion to its absurd intense, creating a sensor that is just 1 pixel in resolutionâ€"but oh man is that pixel’s high quality at any time substantial.

Posted by John Nack at 8:02 AM on April 07, 2013