>>52815244I am over simplifying lots of things here.
But the screen of the CRT is coated in phosphorus, it glows a nice color when hit by the electron beam.
There is a nice even coating of this phosphorus on the inside of the monitor, no pixels.
So now the beam shoot anywhere on the screen and light it up, in a continuous fashion, the line the beam forms is continuous unless the beam stops.
Things get complicated with color, and having shadowmasks and other shit like that. but that is
>Say we don't find an alternative to pixels, would it be interesting to go looking for new shapes? Would triangular pixels have more benefits than square ones?Pixels on your screen might be square, but they essentially represent a data point that is infinitesimally small.
Think of of like this, when you take a picture with your camera you are recording a series of points of light onto the sensor.
The points of light are exactly that, just points, not square of triangles.