In order to be properly 8-bit it’d also need to round the colours to some quantised palette. The physics of that would be much, much more interesting.

I’m guessing that Atari 8-bit computers would be the easiest, followed by pure 8 and 16-colour RGB and RGBi palettes. To do the Commodore 64 palette would be a very interesting materials science project.

And then do that with variable ones, like the Commodore 16, where you have an arbitrary subset of a quantised color space.

Try that without a power supply.

Note: there are two products shown in this article...

1. Pixel Window (not yet available to buy at the time of writing)

2. Pixel Mirror (a smaller version that is on sale at <https://monoli.easy-myshop.jp>)

I'm not related to the seller, but thought this info would clarify some things.

I can see how it works in one of the links you can see that there's 2 faceted almost half cylinders attached together with a 90' twist so you get quantized (in space, not color value) sampling on each x/y axis.

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> There is no denying that modern graphic resolutions have reached unachievable heights

Who thought current resolutions were unachievable?

Making pixel art is not about low resolution. AI is finally getting close to being able to do it. If you could do it with a crystal it wouldn't have taken 30 years of trying to automate pixel art creation.