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Aug 5, 2024, 4:06:41 AM8/5/24
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ThePixel Window is an in-development project from monoli, a Japanese material designer and art student-turned-engineering Ph.D. who blends those backgrounds to, as a Google translation of monoli's webshop puts it, create "a small laboratory you can wear." Monoli's made a series of wearable and handheld prisms, including color-diffracting cubes and the Pixel Mirror, which produces an inverted pixel image of what's behind it.

Following in the Pixel Mirror's footsteps, monoli has been teasing a successor since February, finally revealing the Pixel Window at the end of June. Compared to the Pixel Mirror, monoli's latest creation produces an uninverted pixelated image with cleaner, crisper edges. In monoli's words, it "minecrafts scenery without electricity."


"Look at this thing. Look at those fat swatches. Details smashed. Incredibly legible values," said @Stretchedwiener, an artist with a deeply unfortunate Twitter handle. "Could be standard kit for any artist."


Monoli is still working on the Pixel Window, but is "aiming for" eventual sale. However, those of us outside of Japan will need to keep a close eye on Monoli's tweets, because international sales and shipping are only available during brief windows. Until then, I'll be here looking at all the world's smooth curves, like a chump.


I have vision problems where the browser app fonts are too small to read without sitting within a foot of the tv. I require the use of my device (pixel 4a) to type web addresses and use tv browser as I can read the results from it. Roku does seem to promise this feature and so I bought it. Now it seems Roku is utterly useless for this?


Feel free to post back with any questions. It certainly can be a little confusing at first with streaming and getting everything to work. Not uncommon to find a better or easier way as you begin to understand things a little more and start experimenting with the capabilities of these devices.


Sometimes depends on the phone and version of Android. On my Android MotoZ, I cannot just press Cast and push everything I see to my Roku devices. (I can with Youtube and some other Googlecast compatible sites).


You don't. Nobody needs a streaming device if the content is available online. I stream a lot of content off my laptop directly to my TV via an HDMI cable. The streaming device itself is for convenience and to manage a collection of different streaming Channels/app/services. Any streaming device is simply a little specially designed dedicated computer for streaming online content. You will really only need a streaming device for content that is not readily accessible online.


If you want features that aren't included natively with a streaming device, then you will need to add these features youself. Just like adding apps to a phone or software to a computer. You may need to customize it a bit to suit your needs.


If most of your content is going to be cast and will work on Chromecast or Chromecast with Google TV devices, then perhaps that is the better product for you. Most of the different streaming services are available on all these different streaming platforms. Just have to find the platform you like that works best and most convenient in accessing your desired content.


Thanks. I guess I really didn't understand exactly what these things do. My expectations of Roku may have been unrealistic. I'm already fighting Pixel phone vs Samsung tv incompatibilities and hoped Roku would be a workaround.


Hi all, first post here. I create vector portraits in Illustrator. They're mainly symetrical, so I mirror a layer (transform > Reflect X) So I just draw one side and it reflects over. This works perfectly and saves and prints perfectly, except when I want to use it digitally. When I pull the ai. into Photoshop to work on it, there is a gap down the middle where the 2 reflected sides meet (see the red background image) Obviously there are workarounds, I can put a solid shape behind it or I can expand and merge both sides but does anyone know why this might be happening in the first place? Thanks!


It is important for digital use that the mirror line is placed at a whole/integer X value as measured in points/pixels. Regardless of your current unit, you may simply use X = 0, which will always work.


I would like to have a look at your Illustrator file to see if I can detect what is causing the problem. You do not need to share the complete artwork, just the objects (and the background) that gives the problem.


Mirror images are a great way to create something new based on old work. The techniques has been around for a long time and it is not real difficult to set up. You simply take an image, copy it and then flip it and attach to the original image.


The interesting thing is when you mirror an image, often you will see shapes take form. For example, in the image above; do you see the face in the center in the clouds? I did not create that one, it just became visible when I made the mirror image.


Dan Wampler is a digital artist from St Louis, MO. Having been interested in art and photography since childhood, he spent most of adult life working for Kodak and in the portrait photography industry. A student of the works of Ansel Adams, Any Warhol, and David Hamilton, Dan attempted to keep a wide range of artistic style.


As an early adopter of digital imaging, he found it gave him a way to completely incorporate art and photography. Began shooting Digital Infrared in 2004, and had first camera converted in 2006. His work has been seen in numerous gallery shows, is featured in an iTunes app. He produces Infrared and natural color digital art for sale and teaches his post-production techniques online.


What a lot of fun!!!!!! So glad I came across this. I have not taken many landscapes in IR so not a lot to work with at this time but gives me ideas for new things to look for. I did mostly color flowers playing with this. Thanks so much.


When I Crop at the right spot, I flip the image horizontally. Then I loose the original cropped image. How do I save the the original to match up for the mirror effect? Not sure where the image is to drag into canvas.


Hi Richard,

If you follow the steps in this piece you will get the correct results. You Crop the image the way you like, drag it to a new canvas, flip the new canvas and then drag another copy of the cropped image onto the new canvas again. Good luck!


2The document--"DLP4500 0.45 WXGA DMD" describes the DMD has 912 1140 Resolution Array.And the following picture(provided by document--"DLP4500 0.45 WXGA DMD" )shows the DMD's part size.And my question is:the row has 912 micro mirrors,the column has 1140 mirrors? If so,why?


I appreciate there are issues with odd and non whole pixel data on a layer making the centre point a non whole pixel, but it would be really handy if things like align and mirror especially could at least maintain the same pixel relationship of the image/layer to the canvas as the pre aligned/mirrored image/layer/etc, even if this means that it doesn't quite precisely align to the centre or whatever.


I'm already using a manual process to deal wit this and the point of the comment was really that when you have move by whole pixels and force pixel alignment turned on, it would be handy/intuitive if transforms and alignment respected the current pixel alignment of layers and images too, to avoid having to manually correct things.


After mirroring a group with original still behind. You can see the extents of the group and it's centre point are the same, but because of the fractional pixel size the actual pixels get offset by a fraction of a pixel and thus become burred.


So far the only way I can find to resolve this is to rasterise and trim, which trims the rasterised layer to a whole pixel size and mirroring then works fine. But this is obviously destructive and doesn't work for what I need to do. I currently have to turn off pixel alignment and manually drag the mirrored version horizontally until the images look the same.


It's a particular issue for me here, but more generally people may not realise that mirroring an image/layer/group which has a fractional pixel size could subtly change the way it looks... this may not matter in many cases but it could for some. Given this I actually think it should be changed so that in general mirroring or aligning doesn't change the relationship of pixel data to the pixel grid, by default, and you have to actively change the behaviour if unwanted.


it's always necessary to manually shift things around slightly to let them snap back to pixel grid when you do "center" stile of alignment. I actually lose that pixel grid snapping when just move a layer around too quickly sometimes .


Whilst that is useful to know, it doesn't help with the particular issues raised here. Align and mirror simply ignore the pixel alignment setting.



I actually find that mirror ignoring transform locations as well and always using just the centre point of whatever you are mirroring is also pretty irritating, but that's a separate issue.

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