Community dictionary

Many terms, references, and in-jokes have been made by the pxls.space community over its lifespan.

Template

A template is an image displayed on top of the canvas to make it easier for a user to create an art piece.

Information on how to create a template can be found here.

Faction

See Faction.

Background

A background is often used an infill between art pieces, but may sometimes have its own area on a canvas. The most common type of background is a lattice.

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  The Chromatic Empire's wavy rainbow pattern on canvas 70.

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  Pxls Roads' road on canvas 37 showcasing different road variants to match the lattices around it.

Lattice

A lattice is a type of background characterized by repeating patterns.

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  Green Lattice on canvas 58, with an art piece to expand outwards from.

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  Cell Lattice on canvas 47, showcasing the many different variants of cells made by users.

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  The "Lattice Lattice" project made by Chalkless made up of many different lattices.

Fiddle Abuse

Used to refer to "fiddled" projects that have excessive/bad dithering and/or anti-aliasing. The term originates from the now-deprecated pxlsFiddle, which was originally used as a tool for such conversions.

The term "defiddling" is the act of manually cleaning up an art piece using a photo editing software by removing any out of place pixels generated by whatever method was used to either downscale the image, or convert it to the Pxls palette.

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  An example of a picture of someone that had its colors automatically converted to Pxls' limited palette by a program causing it to lose most of its detail.

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  An example of poor anti-aliasing where a piece of art was downscaled by a program causing it to have a "blurry" look.

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  An example of a piece of art being downscaled and given a "dithered" effect by a program, causing it to look very poor.

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  A "fiddled" art piece that was automatically converted to Pxls' limited palette by a program.

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  The "defiddled" version of that art piece that was manually cleaned up by Latency for the osuplace faction.

Virgin Abuse

"Virgin" pixels are pixels that no user has placed on. "Virgin abuse" is when an art piece or lattice shares many colors with the initial canvas, meaning only a fraction of the art/lattice has to be built. Some users dislike when others use virgin abuse to construct art/lattice since they see it as being a bit lazy and not putting in the full effort to construct their art/lattice.

"Devirgining" is the act of placing pixels over virgin pixels to devirgin them. Devirgining is sometimes done by users making art/lattice that has virgin abuse to make the art/lattice feel more complete.

Users have the ability to view the "virginmap" by pressing the X key which shows which pixels are still virgin pixels. Virgin pixels appear light green, while non-virgin pixels appear black.

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  Green Lattice's territory during the middle of canvas 72.

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  The virginmap of the area showing only the green pixels of the lattice were placed, letting Green Lattice claim a large area very quickly.

Ego

An ego is a number built on the canvas by a user displaying the amount of all-time pixels they have placed. These can vary in size, but tend to be small due to an ego being a solo project.

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  MonsterChicken's Ego, with the user's name to denote who's ego it is.

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  dankgod's (now VZ) ego, the 0.XXm is sometimes used a stylistic choice to put emphasis on how close a user is to 1 million pixels.

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  SubaruSenpai's Ego, with proximity to their art to denote who's ego it is.

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  Waffle's Ego, with an art piece referencing their username to denote who's ego it is.

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<1ker

A term used, often condescendingly, to refer to users who have placed less than 1,000 all-time pixels.

28915

A reference to the time the number "28915" got repeated many times over in the #counting channel in the pxls.space Discord server.

:welldone:

See Steven the Cat.