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PIX
PIX can refer to: Cisco PIXPIX (Microsoft)Plan It X Records This page disambiguates a three-character combination which might be any or all of an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the li..
Pix
PIX can refer to: Cisco PIXPIX (Microsoft)short for WPIX, Channel 11, New York City It can also be a shorthand for "pics", in turn a shorthand for "pictures". Equally, the term may be a shorthand for "pixels". This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated wi..
Pixadex
Pixadex is an image management utility geared towards managing computer icons created by The Iconfactory for Mac OS X. It is the successor to Mac OS 9's IconDropper, also by the IconFactory. Software features Collections* Nested* Smart collections: collections based on criteria, similar to smart p..
Pixanne
Pixanne was a popular childen's television program hosted by singer-actress Jane Norman (born about 1935) that ran from 1960 to 1976, primarily on WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. The show was syndicated nationally from 1970 to 1976. The show began when Norman, a onetime child prodigy who'd been playing an..
Pixar
''' Pixar Animation Studios is an award-winning American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA). It is a division of The Walt Disney Company. Though best known for its production of computer-animated feature films, Pixar also develops and markets high-end 3D computer graph..
PixArt Imaging Incorporation
PixArt Technologies was founded in July 1998, specializing in CMOS image sensors and related IC design, research, production, and sales. PixArt has extensive experience in analog IC design, image sensor IC design, and image processing IC design, and is currently one of the leading global providers o..
Pixar Image Computer
Pixar Image Computer The Pixar Image Computer was a graphics designing computer made by Pixar in May 1986, intended for the high-end visualization markets, such as medicine. The machine sold for $135,000.00, but also required a $35,000.00 workstation from Sun Microsystems or Silicon Graphics. ..
PixBuilder Photo Editor
WnSoft Graphics Software PixBuilder Photo Editor is graphics software for photo editing and images manipulation which runs under Windows 98 and later versions of Microsoft Windows. PixBuilder Photo Edtor was founded in June 9, 2005. For the current time PixBuilder Photo Editor official version is ..
PIXE
PIXE (Particle-Induced X-ray Emission or Proton Induced X-ray Emission) is a technique used in the determining of the elemental make-up of a material or sample. When a material is exposed to an ion beam, atomic interactions occur that give off EM radiation of wavelengths in the x-ray part of the ele..
Pixel
This article is about the computer graphics element. For other uses, see Pixel (disambiguation). This example shows an image with a portion greatly enlarged. The different shades of colour blend together to create the perception of a smooth image. A pixel (short for picture element, using the ..
Pixel2Life
Pixel2Life is one of the largest tutorial indexing websites on the web. In addition to having a huge variety of tutorials to choose from, it also offers other webmaster resources such as topsites, a message board, and a section entitled "Community Buzz" Contents 1 Site Rank2 Community B..
Pixelante
Pixelante is a term coined in October 2005 by Miami, Florida-based Attorney Jack Thompson (also known as John B. Thompson) to describe what he believes to be corrupted members of the computer and video game community, driven to harassment, threats, violence, and other illegal activities as a result ..
Pixelati
Pixelati Ltd is an Auckland, New Zealand-based media and game developer. External links [Pixelati Homepage] ..
Pixelation
An example of pixelation. The image looks smooth when zoomed out, but when we view a small section more closely, the eye can distinguish individual pixels. In computer graphics, pixelation is an effect caused by displaying a bitmap or a section of a bitmap at such a large size that individual ..
Pixelization
This article is about the graphical editing technique. For the undesirable graphics phenomenon where individual pixels become visible, see pixelation. For the stop motion animation technique, see pixilation. Pixelization is a video- and image-editing technique where an image, or part of it, is blur..
Pixelplus
Pixelplus is a technology developed by Philips that enhances every single pixel displayed on television screens. The result is a razor-sharp picture with better details. Pixelplus technology doubles the horizontal resolution of standard TVs and increases vertical resolution. The result is a picture..
Pixelpost
From their [website]: Pixelpost is a photoblog application powered by PHP and MySQL. It's developed and maintained by photobloggers who like to keep the meaning behind photoblogging in mind, the photography, and not about the 311 hacks you would have to get through to get your regular blog..
PixelShips
PixelShips is a horizontal scrolling shooter game developed by Kris Asick for the Windows platform. In it, players start out with one PixelShip (a small toy loosely resembling a fighter plane) and complete a variety of missions, their ultimate task being to collect all 160 known PixelShips and a sec..
Pixelsurgeon
Pixelsurgeon is an online design and culture magazine featuring news, reviews and interviews. It's a digest of the creative, strange and interesting from the internet with a growing readership and popular following. Created in 2001 by [Jason Arber] and [Richard May] as a respon..
Pixels per inch
"Ppi" redirects here. For , see . The square shown above is 200 pixels by 200 pixels. To determine a monitor's PPI, measure the width and height, in inches, of the square as displayed on a given monitor. Dividing 200 by the measured width or height gives the monitor's horizontal or vertical PPI, r..
PixelToy
PixelToy is a Hong Kong electronica music group formed by Shan Ho and Candy Wu. They were the second music group signed by People Mountain People Sea (after at17). PixelToy is currently the only (and only the second, after Lau Yi Tat and Dream) music group in Hong Kong comprised of a male and a fem..
Pixel (disambiguation)
Pixel may refer to: Pixel, the base element of a digital image in computer graphicsPixel (musician), an israeli psytrance musicianPixel (webcomic), a webcomic written by Chris DlugoszPixel image editor This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the s..
Pixel (musician)
Pixel (Eli Binton) is an israeli Psychedelic Trance DJ born in 1979. Discography Reality Strikes Back (HOMmega Productions) (Nov 2004) External links [HOMmega Productions] ..
Pixel (webcomic)
Pixel is a webcomic written by Chris Dlugosz, first published on June 14 2002. It is set in the aptly-named "pixel universe", inhabited by pixels, voxels, vectors and polygons. The text of the comic is written entirely in upper case with very little punctuation other than the occasional hyphen. Eac..
Pixel advertising
Pixel advertising is the term given to visual advertisements on the web which have their cost calculated dependent on the number of pixels which they occupy. Pixel advertising gained popularity in the last quarter of 2005 when British student Alex Tew created a website named The Million Dollar Ho..
Pixel art
This monster ("The Gunk") is an example of pixel art drawn using Microsoft Paint Pixel art is a form of digital art, created on the computer through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old computer and video games, Game Boy games, gr..
Pixel aspect ratio
The term pixel aspect ratio, sometimes shortened to aspect ratio, is also used in the context of computer graphics to describe the distribution of pixel in a digitized image. Most digital imaging systems use a square grid of pixels—that is, they sample an image at the same resolution horizont..
Pixel Chix
Pixel Chix are interactive electronic games based on teenage girls. They are similar to Tamagotchi in that they have an LCD screen and controlling buttons. They come in 3 varieties: Black, Brunette, or Blonde. They can be connected together and the "chix" can go from one house to another. The user h..
Pixel Corps
Pixel Corps is a self-proclaimed 'guild' composed of development personnel in digital media. It was founded by Alex Lindsay. The guild is most famous for providing the video version of tech podcast, This Week in Tech, "MacBreak", "This Week in Media" as well as "Inside the Black Box" . External lin..
Pixel display format
Pixel display formats like *.bmp, *.gif, *.tif store an array of entries, with each entry representing one pixel. This is usually done by storing a 32-bit word in RRGGBBAA format, where 0..
Pixel geometry
The components of the pixels (primary colors red, green and blue) in an image sensor or display can be ordered in different patterns, called pixel geometry. The geometric arrangement of the primary colors within a pixel varies depending on usage (see figure 1). In monitors, such as LCDs or CRTs,..
Pixel image editor
Pixel image editor (formerly known as Pixel32) is an Adobe Photoshop-like image editor written by Pavel Kanzelsberger. It's arguably the most notable application written with Free Pascal. Pixel supports Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, CIE Lab and HDR image formats, layers, adjustement layers, layer effects,..
Pixel Perfect
Pixel Perfect is a Disney Channel Original Movie that premiered January 16, 2004. The movie stars Ricky Ullman (as Roscoe) who is a computer genius that invents the perfect singer, who is actually a hologram. Roscoe recruits her into his friend's band, but she is met with much disagreement. Lore..
Pixel Perfect Productions
Pixel Perfect Productions is a small Graphic Design business, specialising in Web Design, Photo Restoration, and Computer Troubleshooting. The business is currently located in Tamworth, NSW, Australia. External links [pixelperfectproductions.com.au][pixelperfectproductions.com.au/po..
Pixel pipeline
A pixel pipeline is a videocard part that transfers pixel information. The more pixel pipelines, the faster the video card can process pixels. Current top-end videocards, such as the Radeon X1900 XTX and the GeForce 7900 GTX, offer 16 (effectively 48, 3 pixel processors per pipe) and 24 pixel pipel..
Pixel Pipelines
Pixel pipelines are a way to measure the number of pixels that a video card can render. A video card in a computer with 10 pixel pipelines can only render a half of the pixels that a video card with 20 can. This is not the only factor involved in video card speed, factors such as clock rate, RAM typ..
Pixel Plus
Pixel Plus is a name used by electronics firm [Royal Philips Electronics] for a technology incorporated into some of their CRT, LCD and Plasma TV sets. By using a builtin microprocessor to enhance the picture, the resolution can be increased substantially. Currently, that gives double the ..
Pixel Pop
Pixel Pop is a musical art-form lying along side the Pixel Art movement. It provides an interesting and diverse range of music but due to the retro synthesis used within the music provides a recognisable sound no matter what the style. The term Pixel Pop was first used by the ex Punk band Krang Goes..
Pixel Revolt
Pixel Revolt is an album by American singer-songwriter John Vanderslice. It was released August 23rd 2005. In addition to the normal track listing, a track titled "The Kingdom" can be found on the Japanese and vinyl versions of the record. According to Vanderslice, the piece thematically belongs..
Pixel script
A Pixel Script is a computer script that automates the running of pixel advertising web sites. This script runs on a web server capable of running scripting languages such as PHP. Origins and developments The concept of pixel advertising was conceived by Alex Tew at Million Dollar Homepage. Since t..
Pixia
Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but it is useful for any kind of art. Besides the primary Japanese interface, it is also available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. The program supports multiple l..
Pixie
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Pixie (comics) - a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.Pixie (folklore)..
Pixie-Bob
Pixie-Bob Short-haired Pixie-Bob Country of origin United States Breed standards (external links) [CCA], [TICA] The Pixie-Bob, is a breed of cat. According to legend, it is a hybrid offspring of a domestic cat and a bobcat, but DNA testing has failed to show that Pixie..
Pixiephone
The Pixiephone was a children's toy sold in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, similar to the Melodica. Steve Peregrin Took used one on early recordings with Marc Bolan in Tyrannosaurus Rex. ..
Pixies
This article is about the band named Pixies. For pixies of folklore, see Pixie (folklore). Pixies are an American alternative rock music group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986.Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "[Pixies]." All Music Guide. Retrieved June 13, 2005. The group disbanded in 19..
Pixies at the BBC
Pixies at the BBC is a compilation of live BBC radio sessions by the alternative rock band, the Pixies. Released in 1998, five years after their initial split, it was recorded over several sessions between 1988 and 1991 at the BBC. All songs were written by Black Francis except tracks 1 and 15. The..
Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks
Pixie, Dixie, and Mr. Jinks. Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks are Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters who were featured on a regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1962. It starred two mice, Pixie and Dixie, and a cat, Mr. Jinks (a.k.a. Jinksy). Pixie was voi..
Pixie (comics)
Pixie is the name of several fictional characters in the Marvel Universe. The first Pixie was a member of the Morlocks, a group of outcast Mutants. Pixie was an Eternal who was a member of the First Line in [[Marvel: The Lost Generation]]. In addition to the usual Eternal powers, she also use..
Pixie (folklore)
Pixies are mythical creatures of English folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name. In regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to as piskies/piskeys or the little p..
Pixie (glamour model)
Pixie (born January 28, 1979) is a popular English glamour model and lesbian porn star, though now retired. Born in Essex, she is half Cape Malay, with a look that has often been compared to Victoria Beckham and Björk. With her short dark hair and petite frame, standing 5'1.5" (1.54 m) tall, she..
Pixie (renderer)
Pixie is an Open Source photorealistic renderer, compatible with the Renderman standard. Pixie is available under GPL and LGPL. External links [Home page][Pixie Wiki] ..
Pixie (software)
Pixie is a software application on Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. It is part of Xcode, the Apple Developer Connection's developer toolset. Pixie's is a magnifying glass application. Its purpose is to magnify a small section of the computer's screen, centered around the mouse cursor. ..
Pixie Day
Pixie Day is an old tradition that takes place in Ottery St. Mary, England annually on a Saturday in June. The day commemorates the age old legend of Ottery St. Mary's infamous 'Pixies' being banished from the town (where they caused havoc) to the local caves known as 'Pixie's Parlour'. Pixies wa..
Pixie dust
Pixie dust is the trail of sparkling material that often follows mythical creatures such as pixies and fairies in general when they are visually represented. Sometimes, this trail is interpreted as being a tangible substance, often imbued with magic powers. The most notable example of this is in the..
Pixie Geldof
Little Pixie Geldof (born September 10, 1990), is the third daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates. Her sisters are Fifi Trixibelle (born 1983) and Peaches (born 1989). She also has a younger half-sister, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (born 1996), daughter of Yates & INXS singer Michael Hutchence. ..
Pixie King/Aloha Höek
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Pixilation
This article is about the animation technique. For the graphics effect induced by enlarging a bitmap, see pixelation. For the image-editing technique of displaying part of an image at low resolution, see pixelization. Pixilation (from pixilated) is a stop motion technique where live actors are used..
Pixillate
"Pixillate" Song by The Devin Townsend Band From the album Synchestra Album released 30 January 2006 Recorded August 2005 at The Armoury studios Genre Heavy Metal Song Length 8:17 Record label Hevy Devy Records InsideOut Producer Devin Townsend Synchestra Album Listing Gaia (Track 8) ..
Piximon
Piximon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, an Ultimate Level Digimon of the Pixie group. He may be small in size but he packs a punch. He is also known as Piccolomon,and misnamed as pikamon by Tentomon. He was voiced by Richard Cansino. Contents 1 Evolution1.1 Special..
Pixinguinha
Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho (1898-1973), better known as Pixinguinha, was a Choro composer, arranger, flutist and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. Through the legacy of the pioneering choro composers of the 19th century and of the Afro-Brazilian tradition, Pixinguinha produced the most importan..
Pixiu
Pixiu Pixiu (貔貅 pinyin pí xiū) originally known as Pi Xie(avoid evil spirits in Chinese) is a Chinese mythical creature. It reembles a winged lion. Pixiu is an earth and sea variation, particularly an influential and auspicious creature for wealth. It is said to have a voracious appetite..
Pixlet
Pixlet is a video codec created by Apple Computer and based on wavelets, designed to enable viewing of full resolution, HD movies in real time at low DV data rates. According to Apple's claims, it allows for a 20-25:1 compression ratio. Similar to DV, it does not use interframe compression, making ..
Pixley
Pixley could be Pixley, CaliforniaPixley, Herefordshire This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly t..
Pixley, California
Pixley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 2,586 at the 2000 census. Geography Pixley is located at [35°58′13″N, 119°17′27″W] (35.970405, -119.290729)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United ..
Pixley (Green Acres)
Pixley was the name of a town located 50 miles from Hooterville in the fictional world of the American 1960s sitcoms Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. Unlike tiny Hooterville, where the only businesses were the general store operated by Sam Drucker and the Shady Rest Hotel, Pixley apparently had ..
Pixley Falls State Park
Pixley Falls, New York, June, 2005 Pixley Falls State Park is located off NY Route 46 in Oneida County, New York, 18 miles north of Rome and six miles south west of Boonville, by the community of Hurlbutville. Open all year, the 375 acre (1.5 km²) park gets its name from a beautiful 5..
Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (October 1, 1881-June 1951) was a founder and President of the African National Congress. He was born in Natal, South Africa of Royal Zulu blood. At 17 years of age Seme was educated in the U.S., first at the Mount Hermon School and then Columbia University. In 1906, his s..
Pixo
Pixo is a company that develops infrastructure for wireless systems. It was founded in 1996, and as of 2004 is owned by Sun Microsystems. Their main product is the Pixo Mobile Download Server. Pixo also produced a version of the operating system used in Apple Computer's iPod. This seems never to..
Pixodarus of Caria
Pixodarus (in Greek Πιξώδαρoς; ruled 340–335 BC), a prince or king of Caria, was the youngest of the three sons of Hecatomnus, all of whom successively held the sovereignty of their native coutry. Pixodarus obtained possession of the throne by the expulsion of his sister Ada, the widow..
Pixol
Pixol is an unique pixel-based render technology created by Pixologic for 3D/2.5D tool ZBrush. Each pixol contains information about X and Y position and its RGB color values (like a pixel), and additionally about depth, orientation and material. Only ZBrush related files and documents can store in..
Pixote
Pixote Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (Pixote: The Law of the Weakest), is a Brazilian movie directed and written by Hector Babenco and released in 1981. It is the chilling, documentary-like account of Brazil's deliquent youth and how they are used by corrupt police and other crime organizations..
Pixo Mobile Download Server
The Pixo Mobile Download Server was a server software package designed to manage cell phone clients' downloads of ringtones and applications from a cell phone carrier service. It recorded billing and customer data. This technology was created by Pixo and acquired by Sun Microsystems. ..
Pixpo
Company Profile [PiXPO] Inc. has developed proprietary software that allows users to broadcast directly from their PC to the web, with no uploads required. PiXPO is leveraging personal broadcasting technology to aggregate a global User Generated Content Network and will generate reven..
Pixter
Pixter is a children's electronic toy, created by Mattel and Fisher Price, that can play a variety of game in the format of cartridges. Children can also draw pictures and on the Pixter. Because of the toy's popularity, Mattel (through its Fisher-Price subsidiary) created Pixter 2.0, Pixter Color, ..
Pixueto
Pixueto (Pixuetu) is a dialect of the Asturian language (a romance language), spoken almost exclusively in Cudillero, Spain. Every June 28 a long poem written in Pixueto (l'Amuravela), explaining the events of the previous year, is read to the St Peter´s figure during the village's main festivitie..
Pixx
Pixx was a fictional character from Malibu Comics, created by Gerard Jones and Jeff Parker. She first appeared in Giant-Size Freex #1. Penny Burka was a normal child until her powers surfaced, causing her to uncontrollably project hallucinatory images to those around her. Her terrified parents co..
Pixy Misa
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Pixy Stix
A Pixy Stix is a Willy Wonka-brand powdered candy packaged in a wrapper not unlike that of a drinking straw. It is popular during Halloween. The sugar is usually orally ingested, though it has become popular#redirect [[Template:Fact]] to ingest it intranasally, mocking cocaine usage. Flavors Cherry..
PIX (Microsoft)
PIX is a performance tool that can help you maximize the efficiency of your Direct3D applications. External links [PIX Documentation] ..
Pix firewall
PIX Firewall Advertised as Private Internet Exchange Firewall, a firewall protection technology developed by Cisco Systems. The PIX firewall was designed by Network Translations and bought by cisco systems. The operating system was an early provider of stateful packet inspection. It was developed ..
PIX Scotty Server
PIX Scotty is a server for both Counter-Strike and Counter Strike: Condition Zero. It uses a mod which allows players to enter commands such as "scotty lock 1 onto my coordinates" and "scotty energize 1" and cause players to be "beamed" to their locked locations. It plays only custom maps. ..
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