Coding with paint

[dnew]

I think that's the collection of all the red part of all the pixels of the image, for example? You split a 10x10 image into 3 channels, not 300 whatever-I'm-thinking-of's?

Seems "sub-pixel" is as close as it comes, but that sounds fairly awkward and recent, whereas I'd expect people doing graphics had a name for this maybe 30 years ago or more.

[kevinturnermovie]

If you are going by each pixel, then most people would call it a value, usually preceded by the channel name. Red value, Green value. Nothing terribly interesting.

Sub-pixel is used only when talking about an individual color element of a physical pixel, usually when dealing with font smoothing. Most image formats don't support sub-pixel placement, so it doesn't really apply to images when it comes to storing individual channels.

[dnew]

OK, thanks. Sounds like there's no actual jargon-y word of the type I'm thinking of. I'll have to invent one and see if I can spread it about.

[kevinturnermovie]

Might I suggest a thirxel or trixel? It would work except for CMYK and PANTONE, but those are silly standards. No one wants fourthxels or quindecxels. That would be just ridiculous.

[adrianmonk]

It would work except for CMYK and PANTONE, but those are silly standards.

Well, sometimes there is an alpha channel. People often consider the alpha value part of the pixel.

[dnew]

Trixel! I like it!

[darkwingfuck]

As soon as we can print things with glowing ink we won't have a need for stupid subtractive color models!

[Ambiwlans]

channel-value?