I've got a feeling that even if they haven't yet, some digital camera manufacturer will come up with the term 'true pixels' to describe a quality of picture both infinitely and imperceptibly better than the quality of cameras half the price, but I use the term to mean almost the exact opposite.

I expect you know what pixels are. Your computer screen is made of a grid of very small dots that can be a number of deferent colours. Because of this grid, horizontal and vertical line appear fine where as diagonal and curved lines look a bit iffy.

The normal solution to this is called "anti-aliasing" but when the pixalated images are scaled up, this is little help.

But do we need curves? Can we not create images that are true to the nature of pixels, that all objects are constructed of the horizontal and vertical? Let us not create a crude illusion of a curve, that is in fact a staircase, but create images true to there pixels, that represent nothing they do not truly depict!

One example of true pixel art was a '80-'90's logo for Electronic Arts.

(this was redrawn from memory) Here curves and diagonals are suggested rather faked. I always thought it was the initials of Elec Chronic Arts, but now I realize it's a reference to the Bowhouse.

Look at the banner at the top of this page. How mach of it do you think obeys the rules of true pixels?