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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Not really, mosaics have far more shapes than just squares, and they're not usually arranged in a grid either. Have you seen actual mosaics?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FWIW, pixels don't have to be square or in a grid.

Some professional cameras take photos with hexagonal pixels, for example

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

FWIW, pixels don't have to be square or in a grid.

Are autochrome starch particles subpixels? How many are there in a pixel?

Some professional cameras take photos with hexagonal pixels, for example

Really? I thought the Bayer filter was near-universal, and Wikipedia does not list what you just mentioned.

Anyway, older LCDs in portable color TVs, cameras and camcorders did use that pattern but that's on the display side.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You prompted me to look it up and my knowledge is apparently a bit dated on that one

I'd apparently read about Fujifilm doing this with some of their older CCD based sensors and they shifted away from that ages ago!

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they probably didn't output .raw images, I think those are more recent. That would have been a weird use of the file format!

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Apparently they did have a raw format called RAF and the processing involved "demosaicing" funnily enough given the thread we are in

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pixel just means picture element. Pixels also can be different shapes but squares.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pixel art is usually a square grid though

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who says it has to be? /s