Windows 7 Pavilion – White ares with vertical, pink, flickering pixels – Green areas with green, vertical moving pixels

I have a windows 7 Pavilion, HP laptop that’s been having issues for a month or so. It started after the laptop fell from my bedside, around a 2 foot drop onto the corner near the vent fan, and cracked the bottom part of the casing. The crack doesn’t go up into the plastic around … Read more

How does a GPU know the address of each and every pixel on a screen? If so how does it cope with high resolution images?

I know how bitmaps work and how pixels are used (binary 0 or 1). I am also aware of RGB but the thing I wonder about is how GPUs know the address of each pixel on a high resolution screen and how the GPU sends information to the pixels. Can anyone answer this? Answer A … Read more

How to calculate bytes needed for a gray scale video

What is the minimum memory (in bytes) for saving five seconds gray scale video with a frame rate of 14 fps in which the dimension of each frame is 480×320? Each pixel in this video requires to be able to store at least 6 different statuses Looking at similar questions on the board, I assumed … Read more

How can pixels display continuous data?

I am currently playing around with procedurally-generating Sierpinski triangles in Terraria but I have encountered a problem. As you can see in the image below, the dimensions of the triangles are not discrete and so I am ending up with skew triangles which overlap. Clearly it is possible to display these kinds of shapes using … Read more

Is there a way to limit display resolution options in Windows 10?

I’m trying to find out if it is possible to restrict or edit the list of possible resolutions offered in the Windows 10 Display Settings. I would want to make sure that if the user changes the resolution, the only options available would ensure that the pixels that Windows is displaying are made up of … Read more

ffmpeg – Change color of transparent pixels?

Background: When you turn pixels transparent, you’re in fact just setting the alpha value of a pixel to 00. Said pixel can still have an arbitrary colour, no matter if it’s green, blue, black or something completely different. My question: I got a video that’s having a lot of “transparent-green” pixels, that all have the … Read more

ffmpeg – Change color of transparent pixels?

Background: When you turn pixels transparent, you’re in fact just setting the alpha value of a pixel to 00. Said pixel can still have an arbitrary colour, no matter if it’s green, blue, black or something completely different. My question: I got a video that’s having a lot of “transparent-green” pixels, that all have the … Read more

Samsung T220 has white pixel “snow” on images with dark backgrounds

My 4-year-old Samsung T220 has been having an interesting problem lately. On images with very dark/black backgrounds, I see flickering white pixels on the foreground parts of the image that isn’t the background. Example: an image with the word TEST in red (can be any color, really), with a completely black background. The white pixels … Read more

ffmpeg – Change color of transparent pixels?

Background: When you turn pixels transparent, you’re in fact just setting the alpha value of a pixel to 00. Said pixel can still have an arbitrary colour, no matter if it’s green, blue, black or something completely different. My question: I got a video that’s having a lot of “transparent-green” pixels, that all have the … Read more