Earlier this year, somebody asked on Quora: What is the difference between pixel and voxel? I sometimes can’t help myself, so instead of giving a straight answer, I wrote a whole article on the topic. I get the question. Society serves you things like the movie posters for Pixels and you are genuinely confused. Is it a pixel? Is it a voxel? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? They sure don’t make it easy
![Pixels and voxels, the long answer](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/bae0e07b506a8014d0865cd35a0af7a8cf8ed376/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fmiro.medium.com%2Fv2%2Fresize%3Afit%3A1024%2F1%2AAOHiEzvhV7zFG65Z1DWZcg.jpeg)