How PIXELS Work

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Komentáře • 339

  • @lockkey001
    @lockkey001 Před 9 lety +155

    To the fact that 1 pixel is smaller than the diameter of my hair. How do they manage to squeeze all that components there. Amazing!!!

    • @makiyamakiya4043
      @makiyamakiya4043 Před 8 lety +2

      ILOVEYIU

    • @mja2239
      @mja2239 Před 6 lety +15

      The pixels on my screen don't seem to be that small

    • @yashalraza
      @yashalraza Před 5 lety +23

      plus they manage to get the right perfect color rendered and make it appear all in a microsecond amazing

    • @anim8dideas849
      @anim8dideas849 Před 4 lety +3

      the user lasers and magnifying lens to make etches in metal/silicon chips

    • @Tyler-mp7kh
      @Tyler-mp7kh Před 4 lety

      @@anim8dideas849 so is the full RGB thing, 1 or 3 pixels?

  • @numgun
    @numgun Před 9 lety +486

    How the hell did the scientists figure this out in the first place? o.O

    • @Xagraniatko
      @Xagraniatko Před 9 lety +82

      Engineers mate, engineers.

    • @numgun
      @numgun Před 9 lety +133

      Engineers, scientists... eh. I'll just call them technomagicians, because this stuff looks like magic to me, even when fully explained. : p

    • @Fisherdec
      @Fisherdec Před 9 lety +86

      This is the work of several generations of research and innovation. People constantly learning more about a particular idea, and then creating something novel with that idea.

    • @0530628416
      @0530628416 Před 9 lety +10

      it is great , it is supposed to be and look like this when we hear it
      the question is what can i do , what can you do ? :)

    • @mspaint8414
      @mspaint8414 Před 7 lety +26

      It is 2017 and we have fidget spinners..

  • @vaishakhmonti
    @vaishakhmonti Před 5 lety +36

    Loved this short and precise explaination. It is indeed a miracle of engineering and one that we take for granted. Very well animated and covered. Thank you for the effort.

  • @jeanpanachay
    @jeanpanachay Před 7 lety +191

    This is witchcraft, or alien technology, take your pick
    It's incredible ! I can't imagine that people made this

    • @spooderdaddy8827
      @spooderdaddy8827 Před 6 lety +9

      Jean Panachay
      Yeah I can't imagine how the fuck are signals made/invented
      How the fuck do they do it!?
      I'm sure aliens teached humans

    • @pikudopikao8425
      @pikudopikao8425 Před 6 lety +5

      It is PATRIARCHY.

    • @clutch1141
      @clutch1141 Před 6 lety +4

      You don't have to be an alien to use your head

    • @MaxCE
      @MaxCE Před 5 lety +2

      @@spooderdaddy8827 uhm, satelites, and the signals are an amount of vibrations and frequencies you cant feel or see, you cant see vibrations and frequencies in the first place, at least not our eyes

    • @TBoy205
      @TBoy205 Před 5 lety +2

      It's actually very simple.

  • @tamircohen1512
    @tamircohen1512 Před 6 lety +12

    After seeing this I have a new-founded respect for the people that design and invent technology like this. Incredible stuff!

  • @DUANEYAISER
    @DUANEYAISER Před 9 lety +2

    Welcome back InOneLesson!! I still watch your "How Computers Add" and "How a CPU works" every now and then, and I'm currently reading "How do it Know?" and "Code" because of them (I've been alternating between the two and will likely finish both around the same time). Thank you so much and I'd love to see you put out even more as your schedule permits!

  • @directajith
    @directajith Před 8 lety +44

    there's at least one video on youtube that explains your question (rule #255 of the internet)

    • @Rick-qg9ju
      @Rick-qg9ju Před 5 lety +1

      Hmmm 255 u say?
      Well if u click on 2:14....
      Coincidence? I think NOT

  • @lionheart051droid
    @lionheart051droid Před 7 lety +10

    I came to find this after getting binary explained to me in another video and computer book. Its... all starting to make sense. I have an even greater appreciation for science the more i study and learn.

  • @thesire7553
    @thesire7553 Před 2 lety +3

    This was such an incredibly concise presentation. It fast-tracked my understanding, thank you so much!

  • @DiMethylMercuryKSP
    @DiMethylMercuryKSP Před 9 lety +3

    Please make more, you are absolutely exceptional at teaching. You make every single aspect easier. You should consider teaching. It would benefit our nation truly

  • @Francisco-Danconia
    @Francisco-Danconia Před 3 lety +1

    That was a far better explanation than I ever expected. Thank you very much!

  • @Estayben
    @Estayben Před 9 lety +9

    Love this channel, happy to see it back! Good video

  • @ierit3796
    @ierit3796 Před 3 lety

    I've watched a lot of vids about lcd and this one is the best. Good job.

  • @EwigesEis
    @EwigesEis Před 6 lety

    This is easily the best explanation I've found on CZcams.

  • @icebeardoesnttalkmuch8919

    this channel really is a big help for guys like me that needs clarity

  • @RealationGames
    @RealationGames Před 9 lety +42

    Surely the best LCD video I've yet seen! Awesome work!
    You could've added a "extra fact" thing that explains that the 0-255 is just a 8 bit binary number, not an arbitrary value.

    • @RealationGames
      @RealationGames Před 9 lety +7

      *****
      That's right.
      256(=2^8) is 8 bits for each color, while 16777216(=2^24=256^3) is the total colors that each pixel can have.
      That's a lot of information for 1920x1080 screen! You need about 50 million of 0's and 1's for each frame, if it was completely uncompressed.

    • @aryashetty3924
      @aryashetty3924 Před 5 lety +1

      bunch of geniuses in the chat!

  • @tracyosborne854
    @tracyosborne854 Před rokem

    Thank you for posting this great vid. Knowing what lies behind making say, percentage adjustments in photoshop colour, is very helpful.

  • @ayreonate
    @ayreonate Před 4 lety

    this channel is brilliant, very simple yet fully detailed explanations. needs alot more content tho. can you please make a video on batteries and sound devices (phones and playback)

  • @jclokwork
    @jclokwork Před 2 lety +1

    Fantastic explanation! Thank you.

  • @Rockyzach88
    @Rockyzach88 Před 2 lety +1

    Perfect and simple explanation.

  • @nimaghasemi5900
    @nimaghasemi5900 Před 2 lety

    you are a legend.
    you saved my college assignment after 7 years you put out this video.

  • @premiere3610
    @premiere3610 Před 3 lety

    Best explanation of how lcd tv works

  • @adwayjoshi3030
    @adwayjoshi3030 Před 6 lety +1

    Excellent Sir,Crisp and easy to understand

  • @pikudopikao8425
    @pikudopikao8425 Před 6 lety

    Wow it looked so complicated but you made it clear in two and a half minutes. Take my like and this ONE BILLION internetz.

  • @wl4131
    @wl4131 Před 5 lety

    Clear and succinct explanation. Thank you.

  • @jyoungswag
    @jyoungswag Před 6 lety

    Amazing explanation, thank you!

  • @YFTOUCH
    @YFTOUCH Před rokem +1

    exceptional teaching video.Thanks for your sharing!

  • @MrBones-yc1jg
    @MrBones-yc1jg Před 7 lety

    enjoying myself here.

  • @MegaUchihaSaske
    @MegaUchihaSaske Před 9 lety

    Thank you very much for a new teaching and very interesting at the same time video. I hope there won't be so much delay after this one and wish good luck to you and your channel.

  • @rolha666
    @rolha666 Před 5 lety

    The best explanation , thanks !

  • @sankarghosh172
    @sankarghosh172 Před 6 lety

    one of the greatest videos in youtube 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

  • @tanvirhasanmonir1627
    @tanvirhasanmonir1627 Před 3 lety

    Best video still now on how LCD works 😍

  • @aliomar8525
    @aliomar8525 Před 9 lety +6

    Yayyy a new video.

  • @Scarabola
    @Scarabola Před 5 lety

    Thanks a lot, Billy Bob Thornton. Didn't know you were into physics and engineering :)

  • @emanmohammed3967
    @emanmohammed3967 Před 2 lety

    that was really cool and good ,
    I wanted you to know that I feel happy some how ,
    because i knew this new info

  • @veenuharni9693
    @veenuharni9693 Před 8 lety

    one of the best videos ever !!!

  • @SevenDeMagnus
    @SevenDeMagnus Před 4 lety +1

    So cool, thanks.
    So it's still a form of scanline? Or is that called rasterization or bitmapping? or bitmapped image.

  • @shavais33
    @shavais33 Před 4 lety +3

    I've found several videos and articles that describe what this video describes, but I'm having trouble finding one that describes how a particular set of RGB voltage levels gets from the chip that is receiving the data stream to a paticular pixel on the screen. For a 1920 x 1600 pixel screen, that's over 3 million pixels! For each pixel, you have 3 LED's with 2 electrodes each that you have to wire up. So that's 3 million * 3 * 2 = 18 million wires! So I can't imagine that it's actually done with wires? How does it work?

  • @amrothxxx
    @amrothxxx Před 9 lety +10

    I need you to make 1 video each day :)

  • @arvindhram5964
    @arvindhram5964 Před 4 lety

    Very well explained. Wonderful :)

  • @arcanity4343
    @arcanity4343 Před 9 lety

    I thought this channel was dead! Just finished the Braille series a week ago btw

  • @grillipp502
    @grillipp502 Před 5 lety

    Great explanation! Thanks :)

  • @stefanogattoCH
    @stefanogattoCH Před 5 lety +5

    Thank you - very interesting! I did not know.
    My question now is how are wired those liquid crystal units up to the video memory? I can't imagine each pixel is connected with 6 wires. That would be millions of wires to connect. It cannot be a connection in 2D or in 3D.. It must something else....

  • @celineguler
    @celineguler Před 3 lety

    a great explanation, thank you

  • @vanickblanc9877
    @vanickblanc9877 Před 3 lety

    Amazing video

  • @pravatx
    @pravatx Před 7 lety

    Great video, nice explanation.

  • @gtawfik
    @gtawfik Před 3 lety

    Great explanation

  • @victory916
    @victory916 Před 4 lety

    Excellent explanation

  • @MrSC4M
    @MrSC4M Před 8 lety

    Great video!

  • @Atemu12
    @Atemu12 Před 6 lety

    Very informative, thank you!

  • @iammituraj
    @iammituraj Před 6 lety

    short and perfect !!

  • @smaquddus1668
    @smaquddus1668 Před 5 lety

    explained easily really great

  • @emilridulfo5754
    @emilridulfo5754 Před 5 lety

    very inforative, will use this for school :)

  • @aungthuhein007
    @aungthuhein007 Před 9 lety

    Great video. Great channel. Just hope it doesn't take as long as this to see another one.

  • @Tisulan
    @Tisulan Před 6 lety

    Extremely good video

  • @SmokeyAshesEDM
    @SmokeyAshesEDM Před 9 lety +3

    It's been forever since you uploaded!

  • @aungthuhein007
    @aungthuhein007 Před 9 lety +11

    I'd appreciate a video about AMOLED screens.

    • @kex1xik
      @kex1xik Před 5 lety

      AFAIK it's make up of tiny, "LED-like" light-emitting dots. So it's far simpler than LCD but there wasn't such kind of material in the past and the manufacturing processes for such a small scale, I suppose.

  • @holohulolo
    @holohulolo Před 4 lety

    I was playing around with a toy microscope and noticed these rgb bars in the pixels and I assumed it either just switches on or off. I thought the brightness would stay uniform through out depending of the brightness setting. I had no idea even at a fixed brightness the brightness of each pixels' rgb would also play. I cannot begin to understand how they are even made. I mean we always assume oh it's machine, but how? these components are so small. It's fascinating how common this technology has become when you realise how much is going on for something so simple.

  • @tqaquotes9379
    @tqaquotes9379 Před 6 lety

    Excellent!

  • @FinoClips
    @FinoClips Před 2 lety

    Gracias por la Explicacion!

  • @clint4Now
    @clint4Now Před 5 lety

    Thanks for the video!

  • @bruperina
    @bruperina Před 5 lety

    Great great explanation. Would you do one for plasma?

  • @foodiemoodie5944
    @foodiemoodie5944 Před 5 lety

    Very well explained

  • @1220metalero
    @1220metalero Před 9 lety

    AAAAWESOME!!!

  • @damotoneko1500
    @damotoneko1500 Před 6 lety +1

    Now i just need to figure out how they manage to send the electrodes into these things seperatly. It's honestly really fascinating ów0
    Or aleast it is when you speculate on how you can use this science to create something like an omnitrix or another scienctifical tool of amusement.

  • @alexdoesrandomstuff
    @alexdoesrandomstuff Před 5 lety +19

    So that’s why is see red green and blue when I sneeze on my screen

  • @akshitkohli919
    @akshitkohli919 Před 7 lety

    So much of easy explanation ...thnku so much ...

  • @Bea_remembrance
    @Bea_remembrance Před 7 lety

    great video

  • @NagarjunS-lx9ef
    @NagarjunS-lx9ef Před 6 lety

    Amazing

  • @lotfullahtofan6608
    @lotfullahtofan6608 Před 5 lety

    well explained sir, thank you.

  • @TrinispaceTT
    @TrinispaceTT Před 7 lety

    Thanks for this. This video explains it a lot better about LCD. Does this apply to IPS and Retina displays as well?

    • @gyroesehni
      @gyroesehni Před 7 lety +1

      Trinispace A retina display is just a high-density display. IPS I believe has 2 sets of polarizers and liquid crystals for deeper blacks and richer colors

  • @lolppl100
    @lolppl100 Před 9 lety +1

    welcome back

  • @TheWarrior831
    @TheWarrior831 Před 8 lety

    so cool. thank you very much!

  • @humayun891
    @humayun891 Před 9 lety

    Thanks for this heping video.
    God Bless you

  • @alitajvidi5610
    @alitajvidi5610 Před 7 lety

    Awesome!!! Thanks

  • @nadeliang1517
    @nadeliang1517 Před 4 lety

    What software is used for this visualization? These 3D models are nice

  • @gastonbordon5079
    @gastonbordon5079 Před 3 lety

    I love you man thank you

  • @pwh1t3y
    @pwh1t3y Před 4 lety

    How on earth did anyone figure out that a) there was such a thing as 'liquid crystal' , and b) how the hell did they figure out that adding electrical current would alter the angles of the crystal elements?
    Best explanation I could find though and just what I was looking for. Love tech

  • @dazimor
    @dazimor Před 2 lety +1

    One thing I don’t get is how you get varying voltage from the binary? Binary is on and off so does each pixel use a digital-to-analogue converter in order to get the different voltages used to vary the brightness or are they just sent through different resistors depending on the binary numbers coming through?…

  • @magicolo
    @magicolo Před 8 lety +10

    FINALLY NOW I FOUND IT.
    the 1 to 255 make different colors XD

  • @fcrick6967
    @fcrick6967 Před 3 lety

    sometimes clever humans have the capacity to do great things ...like design lcd pixels. homo sapiens, i think i love you!

  • @tiberiuzabara6891
    @tiberiuzabara6891 Před 9 lety +8

    GREAT. The next video should be: How LED monitors works

    • @SoundWaveTrax
      @SoundWaveTrax Před 8 lety +6

      +Tiberiu Zabara LED monitors are LCD. The LEDs are used for the backlight.

    • @ChristopherJones16
      @ChristopherJones16 Před 8 lety +1

      What about plasma displays?

    • @SreenikethanI
      @SreenikethanI Před 5 lety +1

      @@SoundWaveTrax I don't think so… aren't LEDs or OLEDs displays in which the individual R, G and B components emit their own light, hence true black/white is achieved?
      Or is it that I'm confused between LED and OLED?

  • @mohammadkarimipourpareshko6177

    excellent and consice! thank you

  • @backendninja8333
    @backendninja8333 Před rokem

    Shame, this channel has only 150k subs!

  • @Synodalian
    @Synodalian Před 9 lety

    Do a video on how OLEDs work (or AMOLEDs for today's technology)!

  • @michakrol2649
    @michakrol2649 Před 6 lety

    cool, It's like swallowing pill with knowlede, no tedious and hard learning

  • @christopherdaccache9737

    thanks a lot very helpful.

  • @eoe.8060
    @eoe.8060 Před 6 lety

    This is cool.
    Question tho...Who was the individual or individuals who were the FIRST to figure this out?
    And how did they figure it out?...what test were ran?...what’s was the first purpose for this technology? Has it always been for smartphones and tv screens?

  • @loadsalolly1
    @loadsalolly1 Před 7 lety

    Thank you, this satisfied my 6 year olds inquisitive mind.

  • @CHzwaves
    @CHzwaves Před 4 lety

    Great 😎😎😎

  • @mahdialawie6400
    @mahdialawie6400 Před 6 lety

    God bless u, holy shit do u know how many videos were no help! tyty soo much

  • @subjectlife82
    @subjectlife82 Před 2 lety

    This has been the connecting point for everything I've researched on pixels
    Given that each color filers has 8 bits ( binary digit) of brightness information like this :
    1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
    for each bit you get 2 possibilities : 0 or 1
    2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 2^8 = 256

  • @Rich-zq9me
    @Rich-zq9me Před 3 lety +1

    is there any reason a horizontal and vertical polarizer are used as opposed to 2 vertical polarizers?

  • @ehyyouwelcom
    @ehyyouwelcom Před 7 lety

    but what's the defrence between the hirizontal and the vertical light
    and after the horizontal light pass the first one why it must chnge to vertical

  • @GoldRaven-oe4by
    @GoldRaven-oe4by Před 6 lety

    I love how most youtubers say "watching this on your monitor" when most people watch it on their phones or tvs

    • @holohulolo
      @holohulolo Před 4 lety

      Doesn't monitor means a computer visual display, aka screen?

  • @serpentsword_3689
    @serpentsword_3689 Před 5 lety

    How do you control which liquid crystal is being powered?

  • @ismaelramirez1418
    @ismaelramirez1418 Před 7 lety

    it's great

  • @_Rainbooow
    @_Rainbooow Před rokem

    i feel bad for pixels while watching a epilepsy video

  • @Jayder845
    @Jayder845 Před 9 lety +8

    Even when my screen is completely black, there is still light coming out from it. Where is the light coming from in that instance? Is the light coming through the spaces "between" the pixels? Or is something else happening here?

    • @RishbhSharma
      @RishbhSharma Před 9 lety +2

      I the black pixel goes fully dimmed but doesn't turn off. Just guessing.
      However, an AMOLED display can actually turn off the black pixel.

    • @Aboode007
      @Aboode007 Před 9 lety +2

      When there is light even when your screen is completely black that means there is still some degree of each color between 0 and lets say 20 or less so it's not completely black but it's very very dark that you would think it's black.

  • @Nature1992
    @Nature1992 Před 3 lety

    Whoever invented LCD must be smoking something good that day.