Pixelization or mosaic processing is any technique used in editing images or video, whereby an image is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a markedly lower resolution. It is primarily used for censorship. The effect is a standard graphics filter, available in all but the most basic bitmap graphics editors.
Marshall B. Webb, an American general, sits in the White House Situation Room during Operation Neptune Spear. A classified document on the desk in front of him was pixelized by the government of the United States before the photo was released.
Wall poem in Amsterdam. The image was self-censored by the artist, Rombout Oomen, in 2004 (pixelization of the pubic hair).
Part of this image, a mural at the entrance to the offices of The Pokémon Company in Tokyo, has been pixelized for copyright reasons.
The mosaic tiles of this human figure in the Saint Stephen Church in Umm Er-Rasas in Jordan have been rearranged by aniconists.
Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western film written and directed by Michael Crichton. The film follows guests visiting an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly begin to malfunction. The film stars Yul Brynner as an android in the amusement park, with Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests of the park.
Theatrical release poster by Neal Adams
