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flixel

noun

Etymology

Blend of floating + pixel. The origins may come from cinemagraphs in the fashion industry in the early 2010s.

Definitions

  1. An image, that combines a photo, and a video element that is looped to give the illusion…

    An image, that combines a photo, and a video element that is looped to give the illusion of movement.

    • Cinemagraph Pro: A professional graphics tool for creating “flixels”—combinations of video and photo.
    • Other than the above iOS apps, Apple also recognized the best Mac apps — journaling app Day One and photography app Cinemagraph Pro, which helps you create flixels.
    • armand dijcks created the pieces by manipulating ray collins’ still images in adobe after effects, before using flixel cinemagraph pro to complete the animation.

  2. An image that is projected into the air by a floating drone.

    • Engineers working for Disney theme parks want to use drones as “flixels,” or flying pixels.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flixel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA