| Lines as pixels.
Now, we have zoomed in much closer towards the screen, and we
can see from this photograph that the lines are not continuous at all!
In fact, they are all made of discrete pixels. At this resolution, the
lines look quite fragmented. (Note that no anti-aliasing techniques are
being used in this example. If anti-aliasing were used, we would still
see a line as a collection of pixels, but the intensities of the pixels
would not be the same. This helps to 'smudge' out the jaggedness of
the line.)
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