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layer8 on July 8, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Crystal Fragment Turns Everything You See into 8-B...

Only modern “retro” pixel art. Classic pixel art depends on how neighboring CRT pixels or LCD subpixels blend with each other.

rbanffy on July 8, 2024 [–]

Yes, and pixels aren't rectangular, but changes on a scan line.

And then let's not go into vectors, because, considering the Vectrex was an 8-bit machine, vector drawings are, by definition, "8-bit".

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