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Brodie Robertson

I am 26 years old
I have been using computers since I was 8
I just found out that pixel is short for picture element

26 July at 5:42 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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Yuki 膀 ❄️ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online I am 32 years old
I have been using computers pretty much since I was born
I just found out that pixel is short for picture element

26 July at 5:56 | Open on groupe-tazor.com
Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

@BrodieOnLinux
I am 36 years old
I have been using computers since I was 8 (Basic and then QBasic)
I just found out that pixel is short for picture element πŸ€“
Now I wonder what voxel is the short form of.

26 July at 5:57 | Open on fosstodon.org
PaleRider
Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

@PaleRider
Yes, I've also read that first paragraph of Wikipedia as well, but the question was where did the word "voxel" come from. It was also joke extension on what @BrodieOnLinux posted (to which I replied and wrote that post)πŸ˜‰

But if you are actually looking for an answer, the etymology of voxel is vo(lume) + (pi)xel

Source: merriam-webster.com/dictionary

26 July at 6:15 | Open on fosstodon.org
Pierric

@Mehrad @PaleRider @BrodieOnLinux Im 41 years old, and I've been using computers since I was 8. I'm old enough to have known back in the day what pixel stands for, and then forgotten it until today.

26 July at 6:19 | Open on mastodon.green
PaleRider

@Mehrad
Ah damn, I didn't get the joke and also didn't even think to write out the explanation. I really should properly read my own toots and the ones I'm responding to...
@BrodieOnLinux

26 July at 8:17 | Open on mastodon.online
kalle

@Mehrad @BrodieOnLinux apparently it stands for "volume element" (as a reference to how the "pixel" word is constructed)

TIL so many things 🀯

26 July at 6:31 | Open on javisst.space
debe

@Mehrad @BrodieOnLinux isn't voxel just volumetric pixel? As in a pixel with a volume.

edit: apparently, it stands for volume element.

26 July at 7:33 | Open on peoplemaking.games
π™Ήπš˜πš‘πšŠπš—

@Mehrad @BrodieOnLinux I think, that is volume pixel or so

27 July at 23:28 | Open on cr8r.gg
PΔ“teris KriΕ‘jānis
flobeamer1922

@BrodieOnLinux I'm 27.
I've been using computers since I was maybe 2 or 3.
I also only just found out that pixel is short for picture element.

26 July at 6:21 | Open on snug.moe
TheGurkha πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
Midnight

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online checks out, yup. used yo call them dots until that Adam Sandler movie came out

26 July at 6:28 | Open on talk.marq42.xyz
Bitterseeds

@BrodieOnLinux I'm 54, my first computer was TRS-80 when I was 9 and I knew this. heh. Being my age sometimes has weird advantages. ;)

26 July at 6:43 | Open on fosstodon.org
Chris [list of emoji]

@bitterseeds @BrodieOnLinux

Ditto, but Sinclair ZX81. I learned programming from the book that came with it, and the chapter on graphics had to first explain what a pixel was.

(Also: "remember, X is a cross.")

26 July at 12:08 | Open on freeradical.zone
Paul L

@suetanvil @BrodieOnLinux
Yes I probably read this from the generous Speccy manual back in the mid-80s.

Just a few lines of Plot and Draw in a loop and you could get some arty stuff on screen especially with Over 1, and the manual encouraged experimentation.

And being able to save result to tape in screen$ format .

26 July at 13:44 | Open on hostux.social
Erik Uden ⁂πŸ₯₯πŸŒ΄πŸ‘

@BrodieOnLinux voxel is short for vore element

26 July at 7:23 | Open on mastodon.de
alf

@BrodieOnLinux I am 49 years old
I have been using computers since the Vic 20.
I just found out that pixel is short for picture element :-D

26 July at 8:00 | Open on freeradical.zone
Shell :fedora: :kde:
Teo

@BrodieOnLinux I'm 24 years old.
I've used computers since I remeber.
I just found that pixel is short for picture element.

BTW. Voxel is short for volumetric picture element

26 July at 9:48 | Open on pol.social
Cylis :omya_nix: :kde:

@BrodieOnLinux This knowledge gave me the same feeling when you occasionally come across a VSauce Video/Short

26 July at 10:25 | Open on mas.to
Cooleech

@BrodieOnLinux I'm 46 years old and found out that from you!

26 July at 16:26 | Open on mstdn.plus
sounddrill :verified_dragon:​
TukanDev

@BrodieOnLinux Wait its actually picture element wtf you learn something new everyday, how did i never learn this is insane to me and i been using computers since 3rd or 4th grade of primary school...

26 July at 23:35 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Alexander Konzurovski
Arti

@BrodieOnLinux I am 21 years old
I learn low-level image manipulation at University
I just found out that pixel is short for picture element 😭

27 July at 16:48 | Open on urusai.social
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