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welcome to the conkey ride home for tuesday, August 24th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

What exactly is a pixel? Pixar co-founder Alvi-Ray Smith discusses its math and history in his new book.

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What exactly is a pixel? Could you describe what it is and how it works?

And despite what many of us assume, it's not the actual block of color that we see on our screens,

but rather the data points used to create the picture that we see. Sort of. It's pretty complicated.

That's one of the more prominent takeaways from a new book published at the start of the month called

A Biography of the Pixel, written by Alvi Ray Smith, the co-founder of Pixar.

He spent the past decade researching and writing this book, and it shows it's a wide-reaching

yet accessible read, and even just in the title, A Biography of the Pixel. Biography, rather than

history, you can tell this is going to be a heady book about the magic of the pixel, about the

humanity that all the ones and zeros behind it is able to endow.

As Smith describes pixels at one point, quote,

far from being squares or dots that sort of approximate a smooth visual scene,

pixels are the profound and exact concept at the heart of all the images that surround us, the elementary particles of

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