Community dictionary

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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.

Lattice

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

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.

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.

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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WIP

<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.