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The tiny colored bricks every digital image pretends it isn't made of.
means The smallest controllable element of a screen image, a single dot of color that combines with millions of others to form a picture.
from Coined in the 1960s from picture element, squeezed to pix plus el, by engineers naming the atoms of the digital image.
Hidden trioEach glows red, green, and blue subpixels.
Megapixel mathOne megapixel equals a million tiny dots.
Mars debutTerm spread via early spacecraft image processing.