spaxel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A spectral pixel.
noun
  1. A pixel that is not fixed to a two-dimensional display matrix but can be moved in three spatial dimensions.

Word forms

spaxel spaxels

Etymology

Blend of space + pixel, introduced in the 2012 paper Spaxels, Pixels in Space: A novel mode of spatial display (Horst Hörtner, Matthew Gardiner, Roland Haring, Christopher Lindinger, Florian Berger).

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