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[ElFenix]

father of digital photography apologizes for square pixels, rights his 'wrong'

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/arc...gital_images_wants_to_make_them_better_1.html

http://nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/jres/115/3/V115.N03.A03.pdf

 

[SunnyD]

So ... basically ... interpolation. Big deal. He's still using rectangular "pixels", some of which happen to be of the same value next to each other making a compound "pixel".

Essentially he's interpolating, losing fidelity in the process. I was hoping for something novel, like a specially crafted physical pixel. The long and the short of it is even his so-called process still utilizes pixels, and we're not getting away from it any time soon.

Also, it sounds as if his method essentially reduces the effective "pixel count" of a device, the fidelity of which could be better served as individual pixels at a higher/more dense resolution.