Digital Pixel Canvas

Digital art is built on two fundamentally different image models: raster graphics, made of a fixed grid of pixels, and vector graphics, made of mathematically defined curves that scale without limit. This simulator renders both side by side. A resolution-tunable grid of extruded "pixels" samples a procedural color field — the same kind of layered, flowing color a digital painter builds up with brushes — and blends two color layers using either additive (RGB, light-based, the way displays mix color) or subtractive (CMYK, pigment-based, the way ink and paint mix) compositing. Beside it, a smooth vector brush stroke demonstrates why vector art never pixelates: it is defined by a curve, not by samples. Tune the resolution, pattern, blend mode and flow speed to see how each choice reshapes the canvas.