I wonder if anyone has made a fantasy console/computer with a bitmapped display that uses non-rectangular pixels.
Hexagons, triangles, something weirder?
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@foone that would be great for isometric pixel art, like Sim city buildings and roads. (assuming you rotate the triangles or hexagons to have (a) vertical line(s))
@foone I feel like I remember something that used triangular "pixels" for an art program or something. But it's such a hazy memory that it might even just be some kind of children's "make art out of shapes" game.
The idea of a game console or PC built off shapes other than squares is certainly interesting. I wonder how small you could make a legible font out of triangular pixels...
Or to take this another direction: there're those massive displays at stadiums that use individual lightbulbs as "pixels" so maybe you could make a gigantic grid of smart lightbulbs or something to make a "round pixel" monitor that has the fun side effect of DDoS-ing every Bluetooth device in the region.
@foone Voxatron uses voxels in a 3D space for holographic displays, would it count?
@foone I remember encountering some weird device like this irl a decade ago during work testing of some early models of then-new really high resolution TVs. We were adding support for it in a game, and it always kept looking blurry. This went on for a while until the lead realized "wait, hang on," grabbed a magnifying glass, and saw each pixel row was offset by half a pixel from the prior, thus making it effectively a hexagonal pixel.