Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art!

[@japhyriddle]

If you like this video, you'll probably enjoy this one as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/navIfGuEgNqto8ksi=7QbgEuzXeu9ClmEc People have been asking about the music. Some of it was created for this video. Some of it was created a long time ago. The only released song can be found here: airfolks.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1

[@lmfao-tp4cx]

I've done subpixel art a LOT of time ago! I'm a microscopist and sometimes i get really bored on the lab, and i have already seen pretty much everything they have from animals or human organs under the microscope. So i kinda started doing this on my phone screen and observing it trough a stereomicroscope. Nice video and explaining btw

[@japhyriddle]

@@lmfao-tp4cx That sounds like an awesome job actually. The microscopic world is amazing. It's so "alien" much of the time. I did a music video job once where I stuck all sorts of things into my microfiche viewer. And while the viewer doesn't have that high of a magnification level, it was still a really fun experience: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoHEZ4qooZd8jM0

[@plastika-p5b]

question what software did you use to do the cat animation/the show off in 2:51

[@mr7aussie7]

sooo.... where is the hidden arg in this video

[@jacksongreenway]

@@japhyriddle Now you can make 1x0.3333333333… pixel art of Garfield

[@DiodeDenizen]

This video makes me feel like I'm looking down into a pitch black ocean, wondering how deep it is, and accepting that I'll never know.

[@Af5j]

cool but ﷽

[@NynnaOnYT9]

Noice

[@monkqp]

​@@Af5j crude drawing of the prophet:

[@japhyriddle]

@@Af5j Ha ha ha.

[@VincentVanJoYT]

​@@Af5j whoa, I didn't know that was a unicoee character

[@BaghaShams]

Your subpixels are being rendered by MULTIPLE, WHOLE pixels on my screen :(

[@japhyriddle]

Ha ha ha. It would be a very difficult video to watch if I'd left everything at 1x scale.

[@jan_harald]

@@japhyriddle especially so because youtube re-encodes the video (so it won't be subpixel-accurate), and not everyone can properly view 1080p and higher video, e.g. I've had trouble on my previous laptops viewing 1080p on youtube, while it works just fine in normal media player

[@TheTuxedoCreeper]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO ❌ NO 👎 NO 😭 NO 🚫 NO 😭🙏 NO NO NO 😨

[@jimporfit]

@@japhyriddle you didnt even give us a chance

[@user-kd1qg4fo1d]

​@jan_harald there is a browser plugin called "h264fy" that changes playback format of KZbin videos it might help

[@nomalthenomal]

waesome fun fact: in pixelart animation there is a concept known as "sub-pixel animation" which is basically shifting the color values of a sprite to give the illusion of movement instead of changing the positions of the pixels. It's a bit more complicated but this little trick is pulled off notoriously in games like Super Metroid and Metal Slug great vid, love seeing wacky retro stuff!

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

Well, that's how all movement is done on computers, simply change the colors of the pixels.

[@dragonfruit3054]

​@@flameofthephoenix8395 though subpixel animations places less load on processors, making a lot more animating possible on software back then

[@yasink331]

​@@flameofthephoenix8395but without changing the actual position of any of the parts of the object

[@eneekmot]

@@flameofthephoenix8395 The idea is that you change colors to make the internal shapes of the character move, while their silhouette stays the same. When combined with a high framerate and traditional movement, it can be extremely effective at giving the feel of subtle movements on a smaller scale than the pixel grid.

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

@@yasink331 The object doesn't really exist is the thing, it's just a concept and can't really be moved.

[@jan_harald]

fun fact: someone has made a subpixel font years ago, and it's literally THE smallest font you can possibly use

[@ToasterReincarnated]

We need a sub-pixel art game with sub-bit music now.

[@japhyriddle]

Gasp! What would sub-bit music be!?

[@ToasterReincarnated]

@@japhyriddle Thats actually a good question, i have no idea

[@635574]

Well sub bit doesn't exist for audio, but you can use oversampling for extra smoothness. Only heard of this on some audiophile channel.

[@rattttooooo]

music thats either *always* on or always off?

[@Ratz99]

@@ToasterReincarnated frequencies outside our range of hearing or smth idk

[@murfburffle]

Stop teasing us with "I don't want to spend a lot of time on the Apple II video modes - there are a lot of other videos that do that" and not leave a link

[@japhyriddle]

I think the 8-Bit Guy's video on the subject is a pretty solid resource for that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jITXpJasjrGMgtUsi=ZzbbFE6KFzMsWjPZ

[@sub0rLai]

@@japhyriddle thank you ❤

[@Creeper_Minecart]

@@japhyriddle Thank you!

[@TimMattison]

The hidden message thing at the end is cool. Real spy stuff. What I love about this video is the subtle things you threw in there. The spelling that makes you uncomfortable, "see me next time", etc. It's really great.

[@japhyriddle]

Ha. Thanks. Yeah, it felt dishonest to say "See you next time", because I can't see the people watching my videos.

[@gweltazlemartret6760]

​@@japhyriddleas you're not facecamed here, we (as the audience) can’t see you either, aha.

[@japhyriddle]

​@@gweltazlemartret6760 Well, my face appears in the video. So you can, unless you want to argue that it's only a digital representation of me and not the actual light reflecting off of me.

[@gweltazlemartret6760]

@@japhyriddle I thought I was funny, whilst not having paid attention enough. 😅

[@japhyriddle]

@@gweltazlemartret6760 I'd never hold it against you : )

[@migsy1]

The closest I’ve seen to sub pixel art is ‘loss’ made with sub pixels that was posted on twitter a couple weeks ago.

[@ToBeDetered]

Def not a loss

[@ZacDonald]

One thing that might help with readability on monitors, don't use maxed out values for R and G, but lower the brightness of the green and red subpixels to match the perceived brightness of the blue pixel.

[@japhyriddle]

Wait... that's brilliant. Why didn't I think of that. You're so right.

[@Jojo_Does_Thingz]

I gurantee that if it hasn't been done already, that someone at some point will do an A.R.G. and have a hidden message for it using that last use case. Very cool video! the rgb lines on crts always intrigued me, so i was excited to see you craft a lil video talking about it! cool stuff 👌

[@japhyriddle]

Ha. You're probably right. That seems like a good use. Thank you. Glad you find this interesting.

[@jan_harald]

in theory, they could, but remember, the point of an ARG is to be SOLVABLE without needing a lot of prerequisite knowledge, more or less anyone should be able to solve them, otherwise you just end up with an unsolved game but yes, if you figure out how to properly hint at this being the case, then it would be pretty cool

[@ZugTheDragon]

The stripes on the (Trinitron) CRTs actually aren't pixels! Technology connections made a nice video about this (you can search for "Technology connections CRT pixels), but basically the CRT electron beam can actually show a higher resolution than what the "aperture grille" would imply

[@KinuTheDragon]

About that: I actually wrote a program that can encode and decode messages written in a similar fashion! However, what I did was essentially write each letter as a 3x3 pixel grid before coloring the columns red, green, and blue. Then I overlap them, so the second letter's left column (red) overlaps the first letter's middle column (green) and so on. I suppose the equivalent for subpixels would be "take this column, then the one 4 to the right, then the one 4 to the right of that".

[@tablemat1191]

I hope Daniel Mullins doesn't find this video then

[@mikoroonii]

6:08 yes, i did decode it, and yes, i am awesome B)

[@japhyriddle]

Hee hee. That's so cool. I wish I had an actual award to give you.

[@FranticErrors]

How to do it for anyone that's confused: 1. View at 1x scale and take a picture of the monitor 2. Desaturate the picture 3. Squish the picture vertically I cant do it myself since I'm on mobile, but there you go! Timestamp for this tutorial if you need it visually: 5:40

[@jpa3974]

That anti-aliasing thing for fonts is a nightmare when you're using a non-RGB monitor, like BGR panels (same thing but the blue and red are on opposite sides). Operating systems allow you to change this, but many programs decide to use their own settings, which was the case for all Chrome-based browsers until recently, and the result is that texts look awful.

[@japhyriddle]

I've been wondering about that. I assume the whole thing is becoming moot since pixel density is getting so high.

[@graxxor]

Yes. Recent versions of Mac OS has since stopped using sub pixel aliasing which means using a newer OS on a pre retina screen looks nasty compared to El Capitan and High Sierra etc. which have beautiful text rendering.

[@poppy-spades]

​@@japhyriddle I like my pixels chunky, I like to be able to effortlessly see them individually. Only upside I have found to higher pixel density is drawing on screen with high pixel density, and enjoying its "enlarged" look on a screen with lower pixel density. Though I do have weird tastes with screens in general 😅 I have found my love for reflective front-lit screens, and generally displays with washed-out colours and uneven lighting, is pretty unpopular. So it feels nice to see appreciation for visible pixels (and subpixels)

[@w01dnick]

Or vertical RGB/BGR, e.g. when using rotated screen.

[@gweltazlemartret6760]

​​@@w01dnickscreen rotation and color inversion (lazy-but-efficient text selection visual) were a mess back in the days. Now mostly everything is handled by the os, those subpixel aliasing errors don’t show up anymore. And I turned off antialiasing and ClearType wherever I can because it’s too blurry for my eyes.

[@enemdisk6628]

This reminds me of iPhone wallpapers 10 or so years ago that had a quite convincing metallic looking effect. I think it worked by glitches caused by sub-pixel rendering on the iPhones Retina display. Something like „pseudo-dynamic wallpapers“ or something along that line. There was a German experimental music label that kinda discovered the effect and a Japanese guy who took inspiration from them to create more images.

[@plixplop]

Found an example, that's pretty cool... so this is a Moiré effect between the graphic's pixels vs the screen's pixels or something along those lines? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKiwlnewecSeqKs

[@m4t7eo]

Ah, yes, the "mysterious iphone wallpaper" website. The pseudo animated ones worked through the moire effect, if I recall correctly

[@enemdisk6628]

@ That’s the label! the website in the description is gone but it is on the Internet Archive and there are the wallpapers from that video and more insights… Thanks for bringing this up!

[@DoobooDomo]

As a subpixel enthusiast, this is actually the first I've heard of subpixel steganography. Neat!

[@sporfworfel]

All colors only exist in our brains. What makes magenta special is that it requires at least two different wavelengths of light to enter our eyes in order for our brains to experience it, whereas most colors can be experienced with a single wavelength.

[@japhyriddle]

Depending on definitions, that's very true. I probably should've worded it differently for this video.

[@minhuang8848]

That was like a bite-sized Tom7 video Which is a very good thing

[@Gamah1991]

5:37 this is a novel enough approach to steganography that could absolutely warrant a defcon talk.... keep exploring computers! you're going to go far :)

[@Kitsu_Worm]

1:46 fun fact: Pixel Animator are actually talking about this for sometimes! it just that it kinda PseudoSub-Pixel as it still animate in full pixel. but it called "Sub-Pixel" because it Illusion perceiver to think it move pixel, even though it isn't (in some level :p)!

[@japhyriddle]

Good point. It's a different meaning of the word 'sub-pixel'. The same idea as anti-aliasing pretty much. In programming, sub-pixels of this sort also play a role. For example, collision detection for sprites is sometimes calculated at a more precise level than the pixels themselves. Super Mario Bros. does this.

[@Tysm_for_1k_subs]

This video was yesterday.

[@AugustusFGraham]

This is one of the single greatest KZbin videos I’ve ever seen. Not exaggerating. Try to contact JacksFilms and see if you can get this vid featured in his “best KZbin videos of 2024”. This is definitely of high enough quality to make the list.

[@jacketylon]

watching this video without sound is like an acid trip

[@lions_mane_jellyfish]

This got me really excited when it appeared in my recommendations because I also hadn't seen anyone talk about using subpixels in this way, so thanks for reigniting the fun I had messing around with them. Awesome video

[@Monkeymario.]

0:29 Not me

[@OddlingCore]

Same same …

[@willlit2806]

The editing on this is just beautiful

[@sunla]

This is amazing. I love your artsy, sciency mind!

[@japhyriddle]

Aw. Thank you : )

[@dr.squawkol]

I love to see that there's another person that thought of doing this. I've been a pixel artist for years and I've seldom played with the concept of sub-pixel art, but I eventually did make something about half a decade ago that *ATTEMPTED* to play with subpixel spacing. Long story short though, I got some f the coloring wrong and messed it up. XD

[@spacesandwich5593]

I actually had this idea one time as a way of like storing black and white images in a third of its size. It can be done with full depth grayscale too not just with 1-bit images

[@japhyriddle]

Yeah, that's so true. I don't why I kept everything 1-bit. I think just because it's really easy to see.

[@kikivoorburg]

Left a comment mentioning fonts, but you cover that in the video. It’s rather neat that we exploit the hardware of our screens to render better-looking fonts!

[@japhyriddle]

One thing I'm curious about is if modern fonts still use the same font-smoothing patterns. The pixel density on screens is so high, and the sub-pixel patterns are less standardized, so I wonder if that concept is getting abandoned.

[@KimGameDev]

I have played with the idea of moving a white pixel doing subpixeling, say you have pixel as RGB and you move it by the pattern: [RGB][000]->[0GB][R00]->[00B][RG0]->[000][RGB] So in theory it should look like a smooth moving white pixel. Anyway cool video btw.

[@nelgluhak6709]

this is genuinely the most underrated channel on youtube. thank you

[@soupinacan5955]

I could be wrong, but I believe this was used a lot in very old games to make more round shapes. For instance, I'm pretty sure Sonic 1 uses sub-pixelling on the edges of his silhouette to make him look more round, based on the sub-pixel configuration that was commonly used at the time that game was released. There are complex crt filters for certain emulators that actually showcase this to give the most authentic feel for this game. All in all, developers at the time that understood how pixels were rendered actually used sub-pixelling to their advantage to make pixel art look more detailed.

[@xenmaifirebringer552]

I guess whole pixels became smaller with time and we forgot a bit about sub-pixel tricks because they were less needed

[@vulduv]

Sonic 1 came out when CRT tvs were standard. And the phosphor dots on colour CRTs are not aligned to the scanlines of the tv nor the pixels of the image the console is sending. So you can't do any sub pixel shenanigans on a CRT.

[@blufudgecrispyrice8528]

Hmm I just thought it was anti aliasing

[@MootPoot]

this is so unique, never in a million years would i have thought of this

[@AdrianHereToHelp]

I love the calm-and-pleasant just-kinda-excited-to-talk-about-this-thing-that-they're-interested-in vibe of the narration. Reminds me a bit of Sebastian Lague, who has a wonderful narration style where you can just hear them smiling. I always love videos like this.

[@FunkyFooood]

4:41 WHAT SONG IS THIS? IT MAKES ME SMILE WITH ALL MY TEETH.

[@japhyriddle]

It's not really a completed song. It was part of an experiment a decade ago that involved a tape loop of drums wrapped around a cylinder on a spinning turntable with a tape head mounted against the tape loop.

[@pasmoluiso]

​@@japhyriddlewhy are you posy?

[@hopeking7841]

I hope this catches on such a cool concept that hasn't been done yet to my knowledge thanks for sharing such a great idea and how to do it!

[@ChromaCries]

A good example of a Paradox is the fact that you're looking at sub pixels through pixels. So even to see the sub pixels you still need the larger pixels aka the screen you're watching this on. Now ponder if everything works this way and spend the evening having an existential crisis ⏳

[@beabuzzkill]

*## SPOILERS FOR THE HIDDEN CODE AT **6:07** IF YOU PRESS READ MORE ##* the code is "whoa, you actually decoded this? you're awesome!" :3

[@japhyriddle]

I'm so impressed. You're a true sleuth!

[@mundocpc]

This is an approach I saw quite a few years ago to override colour limitations of Amstrad CPC Mode 1 (just 4 colours, that can be red, green, blue and black). In the original CRT screen results were very good.

[@DerB23]

That is so cool! I animated a subpixel Autobahn some time ago, and recently made subpixel heraldry. I really look up to you, so seeing you present this niche thing, that I didn't even know other people did, feels very special to me

[@renderpunk.neocities]

oh I love this video so much. I've been a fan of a subpixel typefaces for years now

[@sleepyghostmp3]

What a beautiful, informative video. I've tried incorporating subpixelling in CRT oriented pixel pieces I've made, but this is such a good breakdown that's reframed my view of how to do so

[@xguitarist_]

I did see a post on the typography subreddit of a sub pixel font for numbers 0-9 a few months back, but this is definitely the first images and animations of subpixels I have ever seen

[@red13emerald]

I am so happy I subscribed to you! This is the sort of thing I want to see. Interesting, fun, well-presented. Thank you!

[@japhyriddle]

Yay. Thank you so much.

[@plixplop]

This is pretty cool... even if people aren't going to make "sub pixel art," it's still useful to understand the deep nitty-gritty of how images display on screen, and how to precisely manipulate an image's RGB components as shown in the demo with the face.

[@FrogJ]

Working out the message at the end was really fun and rewarding, what a cool thing!

[@lukekline9513]

I truly love this video and this channel so much. More long form stuff please! Everything here is so high quality!!

[@Guillermo640]

Man this is probably gonna make a new era on pixel-art!

[@galacticidk]

i personally love these styles of videos, thank you for taking time out of your day to create this!

[@joeypouladi]

This is so cool! I really appreciate you not only explaining the topic, but also showing us how to make sub-pixel art ourselves. 🙏

[@ani_misha_animator]

1:42 If you unfocus your eyes on this then the sides look like pink, purple, or yellow

[@Rollthered]

There is no freaking way i actually am the first person watching this, omg hii guys!!! I'm what you would call a "sub(pixel)scriber" i guess lol.

[@japhyriddle]

Heh heh. Thanks for showing up to the party on time : )

[@Rollthered]

@@japhyriddle You bet whenever I see a video from you in my feed its the first one i Pix!(el)

[@BrianHG.Ocean.Fitness]

15 years ago, I made a video scaler which took in any PC graphics modes and outputed the image to a 720p or 1080p video screen at the time. The results were that the LCD panels responded to non-native resolutions much more like a studio grade CRT, improving image clarity and ease on your eyes when operating in a non native integer scaled video mode.

[@minekey94]

Last time i checked Subpixel was a Geometry Dash youtuber

[@juliatorre8803]

Gd reference

[@IAARPOTI]

This feels like i am learning a forbidden knowledge as a pixel artist.

[@DigitalLife3000]

This video will be referenced in thousands of PhD Theses in the future

[@Monkeymario.]

1:48 Don't underestimate my intelligence.

[@CranzitKCP]

That's actually so cool! I love how you used it for when you talk throughout the video!

[@japhyriddle]

Because of how picky I am about lighting, I reasoned it would be easier to make a simple sub-pixel talking face than to film myself, ha ha ha. Thank you.

[@CranzitKCP]

@@japhyriddle No problem! The concept of Sub-Pixel's is quite innovative on it's own as well.

[@aaainainaina]

i saw the title and i immediately knew it was a japheth video. that’s a good sign. keep it up my fellow creative, ur amazing

[@japhyriddle]

"Japheth"? I feel so royal.

[@cdigames]

Back in 2017 I was doing a series of pixel art renditions of album artwork I liked, my only limitation was the 28x28 canvas I gave myself. And within a day of starting the project I was already looking into subpixel rendering and how to really tweak the colors to look good at a 1x scale on a typical LCD Having a video like this, back then, would have been so helpful!

[@ThisIsNotADrell]

Woah! A new way to make clues for ARGs and the like!

[@teabow.]

Your editing is amazing! Just a little error I noticed at 2:32. The display for red should only be the red channel.

[@e-talian1245]

Nice catch

[@japhyriddle]

Ha ha ha. You're so right.

[@asserreiad]

In the captions he points out his mistake

[@nameless.402]

​@@asserreiad and in the description

[@Lorenzo-pw7dp]

Man I really enjoyed this video! Your creativity with the visuals and sound design allied with the informational content really digs deep and differentiate your content from other in this site.

[@vrixphillips]

i'm so glad you mentioned the thing about fonts. I was starting to think i was losing it.

[@jeds_basement1966]

i am now happy to know that each pixel is now comprised of 1, individual martian flag

[@japhyriddle]

Whoa. I didn't know there was a Martian flag. That's so funny.

[@wisgarus]

This reminds me of a term and technique I used to love doing called sub-pixel animation. It wqs essentially using extra tones or moving only a part of the figure or object to create an illusion of movement with more precision and detail than what the pixel grid allows. It is perfect for low resolution pixel art

[@RedzeeTV]

Very interesting and surprisingly unique concepts

[@GrilledCheeseSandwichReal]

This video is wonderful! You do a great job narrating and animating this and it felt really informative! I sincerely look forward your future productions!

[@japhyriddle]

Aw. Thank you. I'm glad you like it.

[@thej3799]

I thought about this when I was younger. I am happy someone brought the idea to life.

[@oskar8021]

Cool video! The hidden message at the end reminds me of Matt Sarnoff's Millitext, which also uses subpixel letters!

[@ravenmillieweikel3847]

This is something that I've been doing for a while now, but it's great to see that someone else has realized this.

[@filipedias7284]

Bro I just had to pause and say that trance-y IDM thing you got in the background goes so f'n hard

[@eamonia]

Dude, this is _sooo_ cool! I heard "subpixel" and thought you were talking about speed running Super Mario Bros but this is _way_ cooler. Looks like you just got yourself another subscriber. ❤️✊

[@hacheliam1495]

Only difference between science and whatnot is writing about it. You did science stuff, amazing x3

[@Petiscorei]

Bro, imagine if there was a level in a game where you became microscopic and things were rendered just like that

[@shatterdpixel]

i remember reading a little microfont that used the exact same technique where it used different colors of pixels in order to make 3 pixel tall 1 pixel wide fonts, was interesting

[@karlkastor]

This is so cool. I just read about sub-pixel fonts on Hacker News a few weeks ago. Matt Sarnoff made a 1 pixel wide font that is surprisingly well readable

[@Kratokian]

Oh my godd you're so smart. I've been thinking since Killer Queen came out with a bespoke cabinet back in 2013, It would be great to have a redo on the Virtua Boy screen that only had single color pixels so you could display a high resolution for really cheap. Instead I could have just put filter paper on my screen. I'll have to get back to you, but I at least have to render a Mandelbrot doing this. News for you though, I do have some exceptions to the rgb scheme. I think most projectors nowadays use Digital Light Processing, where they use a mirror for on and offness, and a spinning colorwheel to create rgb, so instead of sub-pixel art you could remove the wheel and triple the framerate... but they're already well beyond processor limits at 20kHz. Much more recently, E-Ink screens have color for consumer release and they can be all over with this idea. I 'think' they have capacitors that move colored inks up and down, and each has rg or b in them, which then act as staggered 'sub pixels' to make their size less apparent, but the capsules themselves can be anywhich where. Dasung says they have colored ink particles, while Boox just have the rgb filter over the the right capacitor-sub-pixel areas. Then, I only discovered watching JerryRigEverything's Boox video, some phones have almost the same triangle pixels! I guess to make their DPI look better when you've got your eyes right up to your phone screen.

[@laut0]

this video is so posy and that's a huge compliment, love it

[@domeen0gt895]

You my good sir have gained my interest through your eccentric and artistic demeanor. Jokes aside, id really like to see some video game made in that weird pixel art style you showed off in the garfield art video.

[@thechosenone729]

Im glad i found your channel in Pixel Art + community on Facebook very good channel.

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

Very nice! I've never done it practically. Though I did wind up using this in Excel since I'd made a screen display split into red, green, and blue slider cells and I had it set up where each cell would have to recalculate values unless I made them calculate different values based on location, so of course I chose different values. However, with a 256*256 cell resolution it was not so good, particularly since each cell is I believe 2*2 pixels, if the screen is too small, the viewer will have to squint just to see it! To make things neat and divisible I also had a brightness slider to make the color components a nice power of two. The brightness slider doesn't recalculate but instead just looks at the above three red, green, and blue components and calculates brightness. The fact that each cell does calculations with formulas is the biggest problem though, sneaking all the math into conditional formatting tends to work best.

[@yo5tan]

This video was so cool, and the production value was absolutely insane!

[@taeliantalittia612]

The last trick blew my subconsciousness.

[@LateStageDesigner]

I remember a lot of talk of talking advantage of sub-pixels in pixel art forums (Pixelation and Pixeljoint) but not in this way.

[@zixvirzjghamn737]

0:56 I can't see the blue one

[@pepperypeppers2755]

Get your eyes checked, you might be colorblind

[@prymiee]

Tritanopia

[@benwyness148]

Might be colorblind

[@silvo6489]

Uh Oh...

[@duckyblender]

Maybe you have a blue filter on

[@banana_]

so THAT'S why text had colour... thanks for the info!!

[@gomigg_]

Oh my god this would be such an awesome puzzle for an ARG! I have to see that now

[@RobertTheFoxxo]

I've always taken note of the disposition of color in these types of screens, mainly if I stare close into my DSi and PC, but I've never thought to utilize such a thing to my advantage...

[@ViktorSarge]

Really cool video. I saw someone make a portrait with oil or acrylic paint where each pixel was a 3*3 grid. It worked surprisingly well from a distance.

[@japhyriddle]

That sounds cool. It kinda reminds me of pixel art made with physical dice. The different numbers equate to different shades.

[@Kawa-oneechan]

There was this one homebrew text rendering system on the GBA that used sub-pixels to get really dense output. Fun.

[@Auburn-l1q]

I used to have a sub pixel text image I put at the bottom of forum signatures (yes, my back hurts). The program I used wasn’t too hard to read on a CRT in the 2000s at 1024x768 resolution (which was practically the high definition standard with 800x600 being the vintage one). There used to be pixel limit to images so it was really cool to be able to cheat with a sub pixel font. It never worked right on LCDs after about 2010 though

[@firstnamelastname7388]

Very cool video! I thought of something similar when I was looking at my calculator screen. The pixels were really big and when something changed color it would shift a little spacially. Sometimes when I look at changing blocks of color on my laptop I can see the tiny tiny shift too.

[@skamtebordv]

then we get the SUB-SUB-pixel art.

[@japhyriddle]

Gasp. What would that be? Molecules?

[@COLOREDLESS.]

this guy is very cool, I like him, he’s very cool, and makes cool art.

[@plushloler]

I've seen a font like this! I don't remember what it's called, though. I've had ideas about using subpixels, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Cool to see someone make a video about it!

[@objectionablycurious]

something similar to this was done a while back to make the world's smallest font on a computer using subpixels. There's an image floating around of the first 8 chapters or so of Lord of the Rings written in that font, and with a magnifying glass you can actually read it.

[@mikerosoftin2001]

I have seen this technique used before back in 2017. I was at the Hackaday Superconference, and there was someone there demonstrating their insanely tiny functioning replica of a Mac Classic. It must have been no more than 2" tall. Since the classic had a black and white display, they were able to create the native 512x342 black and white 1-bit resolution of the Mac using a modern color display with sub-pixels. It benefitted from the heavy use of dithering due to the lack of greyscale, and given how tiny it was, your eyes tended to blur the colors together to look like white. Sadly, I've looked for half an hour and can't find this specific replica anywhere online.

[@kyral4978]

I can't wait to see ARGs start using subpixel messages in their puzzles. I don't think I've seen that done yet.

[@tobee_gamer5816]

This is the greatest video I’ve seen in a long time, up there with POSY

[@AcrosArchive]

This is so cool. Love your presentation style.

[@japhyriddle]

Thank you.