单词 | pixelate |
释义 | pixelatev. 1. a. transitive. To capture, reproduce, or display (an image) in the form of pixels, esp. so that it appears grainy or lacks resolution. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1982 Internat. Conf. Electronic Image Processing 106/2 Observer 3 also showed a significant improvement in moving from 1 to 4 metres for images pixellated on a 64×64 matrix. 1983 Re: Art & C.G. in net.graphics (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Mar. One techno-artist even went so far as to simulate the low resolution graphics of the TRS-80 by blocking, or ‘pixellating’. 1991 Govt. Computer News (Nexis) 15 Apr. 24/4 There are a number of built-in capabilities that allow presenters to fine-tune their displays, including one that pixelates or smooths designated portions of the screen. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 15 Sept. 51/3 A screen called the ‘Groove Tube’—put it over your TV and it pixellates the image into vibrant blocks of color and light. b. intransitive. Of an image: to break up into a number of discrete pixels. ΚΠ 1991 Where are Saucer Warp Drives? in rec.arts.startrek (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Aug. In the holodeck scene, Data does not say that he can see the holodeck walls, just that he knew where it was. (Then he throws a rock at it, so that it pixelates.) 1994 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 1/2 So finely rendered is the detailed landscape that the image ‘dithered’ or began to ‘pixelate’ into a gridlike pattern not unlike what one would expect if a snapshot had been taken through a screen door. 1998 Shutterbug's Outdoor & Nature Photogr. Fall 32/2 The imaging software locates pixels where there appears to be some tonal differences; then it attempts to define an edge between these differences. This may cause the image to ‘pixelate’ or look grainy. 2. transitive. To blur (parts of a televisual or photographic image) by converting into a number of fairly large, indistinct, pixel-like patches, for purposes of censorship or to maintain the anonymity of the subject. ΚΠ 1991 Re: Cream Lemon in Eng. in rec.arts.anime (Usenet newsgroup) 21 July It [sc. an explicit anime] is not censored at all! But that brings up other problems... Some of the scenes that were pixelated were not fully drawn. 1994 Denver Post 10 Jan. e1/3 Her breasts had indeed been pixilated. 2003 Church Times 28 May 12/3 Of all the British papers, only The Independent pixelated the faces of all prisoners of war, whichever side they came from. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1982 |
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