{"id":681,"date":"2017-04-28T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/?p=681"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T09:28:19","slug":"a-brief-history-of-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/a-brief-history-of-pixel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of \u2018Pixel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-682\" src=\"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wireless_world.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wireless_world.png 627w, https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wireless_world-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>Figure 1. The first appearance of picture element, in a news item in Wireless World and Radio Review, about a demonstration by Ives at Bell Labs of a 50-by-50-element television system.<\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few RCA researchers, notably Albert Rose and Otto Schade, continued to use picture element to examine the theory of imaging, but with differing interpretations. Rose wrote in 1946, \u201cA picture element is here taken to be an element of area of arbitrary size, not necessarily the smallest resolvable area.\u201d Schade wrote in 1948, \u201cThe smallest detail&#8230;which can be resolved by an imaging process&#8230;will be defined as a \u2018picture element\u2019.\u201d This dual meaning, between an arbitrary element and a resolution element, persists even today with pixel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/f600\/835b3769fff2dc22c88fedefeee9dbbc37da.pdf\">A Brief History of \u2018Pixel\u2019, Richard F. Lyon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure 1. The first appearance of picture element, in a news item in Wireless World and Radio Review, about a demonstration by Ives at Bell Labs of a 50-by-50-element television system. A few RCA researchers, notably Albert Rose and Otto Schade, continued to use picture element to examine the theory of imaging, but with differing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[47,9,66,114,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}