> A camera does not take point sample snapshots, it integrates lightfall over little rectangular areas.
Integrates this information into what? :)
> A modern display does not reconstruct an image the way a DAC reconstructs sounds
Sure, but some software may apply resampling over the original signal for the purposes of upscaling, for example. "Pixels as samples" makes more sense in that context.
> It is pretty reasonable in the modern day to say that an idealized pixel is a little square.
I do agree with this actually. A "pixel" in popular terminology is a rectangular subdivision of an image, leading us right back to TFA. The term "pixel art" makes sense with this definition.
Perhaps we need better names for these things. Is the "pixel" the name for the sample, or is it the name of the square-ish thing that you reconstruct from image data when you're ready to send to a display?
Integrates this information into what? :)
> A modern display does not reconstruct an image the way a DAC reconstructs sounds
Sure, but some software may apply resampling over the original signal for the purposes of upscaling, for example. "Pixels as samples" makes more sense in that context.
> It is pretty reasonable in the modern day to say that an idealized pixel is a little square.
I do agree with this actually. A "pixel" in popular terminology is a rectangular subdivision of an image, leading us right back to TFA. The term "pixel art" makes sense with this definition.
Perhaps we need better names for these things. Is the "pixel" the name for the sample, or is it the name of the square-ish thing that you reconstruct from image data when you're ready to send to a display?