spaxel

noun

Etymology

Blend of space + pixel, introduced in the 2012 paper Spaxels, Pixels in Space: A novel mode of spatial display (Horst Hörtner, Matthew Gardiner, Roland Haring, Christopher Lindinger, Florian Berger).

Definitions

  1. A spectral pixel.

  2. A pixel that is not fixed to a two-dimensional display matrix but can be moved in three…

    A pixel that is not fixed to a two-dimensional display matrix but can be moved in three spatial dimensions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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