[Poll]

[mcc@mastodon.social]

[Poll]

Situation: Andi uses the word "texel" as a noun in a sentence. Do you know what she means by this?

[kkremitzki@mastodon.social]

@mcc Strictly speaking no, but one can surmise with context + knowing what "pixel" is

[ami_angelwings@urusai.social]

@mcc texel saga

[kiloku@burnthis.town]

@mcc I'm a game dev and I never *really* understood texels...

Pixels: yeah. Voxels: sure! Texels: Aren't those just bitmaps???

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@mcc I don't know that I precisely know what it means in the technical sense (I have a rough idea but might not be correct), but I am at least reasonably confident that you are talking about something in a graphics pipeline.

[megmac@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc I said yes, but I do feel like there's a non-trivial chance of a subtle but important change in meaning from the xbox/GameCube/ps2 days when video game forums were awash in arguments over them, and that's the last time I cared much.

[yosh@toot.yosh.is]

@mcc had to read the comments to realize you were probably not referring to the island

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@mcc A unit cell of texture data?

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@xgranade @mcc Yeah I haven't thought about this stuff much in decades but based on usage long ago I would assume it's just a sample point/value in a texture, same thing as pixel but in the context of textures.

[bob@feed.hella.cheap]

@xgranade @mcc they aren't necessarily all the same shape but other than that basically

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Kiloku refers to a pixel within a texture. To avoid confusion since they can get stretched across a lot of pixels during display. Also technically they might sometimes not look like much like pixels (cf foveated rendering)

[lenary@types.pl]

@mcc I'm guessing you don't mean the kind of sheep

[lambdageek@mastodon.social]

@mcc
Oh sure like hard-shell tacos with iceberg lettuce in 'em and Frito pie and stuff

[nxskok@cupoftea.social]

@mcc a West Frisian island off the coast of the Netherlands. Texel, Vlieland, Ameland, Terschelling, Schiermoonikoog.

Now tell me why that is taking up space in my brain.