Pixel Art
Pixel Art turns a TV, monitor, projector, or browser into a fullscreen gallery of colourful pixel-art scenes.
Getting started
- Open
/pixelart/on the screen where you want to show the artwork. - Scan the QR code with a phone, or open
/pixelart-c/in the same RCWeb room. - Choose a gallery from the phone controller.
- Let the slideshow play automatically, or use the controls to pause and browse at your own pace.
Key features
- Fullscreen, distraction-free pixel-art presentation.
- Themed collections including travel, science fiction, and other curated scenes.
- Automatic playback, with a new image shown every 12 seconds.
- History selected as the first-run gallery.
- The current gallery, image, playback state, and QR preference restored after refresh.
- Previous, next, pause, play, gallery, and individual image controls from a phone.
- Compact previous, play/pause, next, and fullscreen controls on the display itself.
- Left/right arrow-key navigation and a space-bar play/pause shortcut.
- Viewer QR visibility controlled from the phone app.
- Automatic state sharing, so a newly opened controller shows the current gallery, image, and playback status.
- Layouts designed to remain clear on landscape and portrait screens.
Controlling the display directly
Touch anywhere on the screen or move the mouse to reveal the compact control bar at the bottom centre. Use it to go back, pause or play, go forward, or toggle fullscreen. The controls disappear completely after two seconds without interaction. You can also use the left and right arrow keys to change image, and the space bar to pause or play.
Using more than one controller
Multiple phones can open Pixel Art Controls in the same RCWeb room. Each controller follows the state owned by the display, so everyone sees which gallery and image are currently selected.
Companion app
Use this display with Pixel Art Controls (/pixelart-c/).
Artwork assets
Request new artwork from the image generator at exactly 1920x1080. If the generator cannot produce that size or returns different dimensions, keep the returned image at its native pixel dimensions. Do not crop, upscale, downscale, stretch, or pad it to force 1920x1080.
Convert accepted artwork to JPEG quality 85 with convert-image.ps1; the converter verifies that the JPEG dimensions exactly match the source dimensions and fails visibly if they do not.