Watch Pure Platinum Turn Into a Pricey 3D Portrait

No, this portrait isn’t made up of thousands upon thousands of magnetic sculpture beads. The metallic wonder’s lifelike contours and shimmer comes from painstakingly hand-placing 13,000 variably sized platinum beads.

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How Do Computers Translate 3D Worlds Into Pixels?

Computers love to think in triangles to create 3D representations of the real world—but how do you represent those intelligently constructed objects as flat 2D shapes on a screen? This video describes exactly how 3D models are turned into pixels.

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LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI

LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI

Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2,560 x 1,440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest resolution and ppi for a smartphone panel.

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This Fantastic Website Shows How Far Mars Really Is from Earth (Spoiler: It’s Faaaaar)

This ingenious website made by David Paliwoda shows how far Mars is from Earth in a metric all us Internet lovers understand: pixels. If Earth was a 100 pixels wide, how far would Mars be? To start off, the moon would be 3000 pixels away (and 27 pixels wide). Mars? More »

The iPad Mini’s Screen Isn’t Retina But Its Pixels Are Super Small Compared to the iPad 2

The biggest beef that people will have with the iPad Mini (other than price, that is) is that it doesn’t come with a pixel dense Retina Display. It’s the only new iOS device-iPad 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch-that doesn’t have one. But it turns out, its screen is still much better than the iPad 2 because its pixels are smaller. More »

There Is Something So Scary About This Pixelated Hood Mask [Design]

Attention all ye hoodlums, thugs, and general ne’er do wells: the days of the wooly ski mask are over—at least, over for 333 of you. More »

US Army’s Pixellated Camo Uniform Is a $5 Billion Failure [Army]

Whereas pixillation is usually very successful at obscuring images otherwise unfit to be seen, the US Army is $5billion in the hole, with its pixellated camo uniform (introduced in 2004) being dubbed a colossal mistake. More »