Texel vs. Pixel

Texelnoun

(computer graphics) An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.

Texel

Texel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɛsəl] (listen); Texels dialect: Tessel) is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,643 in North Holland, Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea.

Pixelnoun

One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

Pixelnoun

One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer.

Pixelnoun

(computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot);

Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, or picture element is a smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen. Each pixel is a sample of an original image; more samples typically provide more accurate representations of the original.