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    While watching a movie on a big screen, how come one does not see the pixels, but while watching it, say on your computer, you see all the pixels very clearly, and this spoils watching the movie?

    Question #56511. Asked by kola123. (Apr 06 05 9:59 PM)


    Arpeggionist

    Distance is one factor, one can see a lot more detail if one is only two feet away from a screen than one can from 20 or 50 feet away.

    Another factor is the focus of a computer screen when compared to the focus of a large screen. On a smaller screen a lot of things tend to become cluttered.

    Apr 07 05, 8:21 AM
    kaylofgorons

    Digital pictures are not as high quality as film. Digital records of an image and a computer that only runs with pixels will show you the little blocks of an image. In real life, the image (person, car, building) is not made of up blocks at all but molecules too small to be seen. We see the edges as smooth and photo film captures them that way. A computer breaks an image down into similar parts, but we can often still see them. The smaller the pixels, the less we notice them, but they are still "blockier" than real life.

    The theater projection does not necessarily use pixels, but your computer must use them.

    Apr 07 05, 10:24 AM
    Gnomon

    Modern cinematography uses an analogue system, with no pixels.

    Apr 11 05, 6:54 AM


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