Hello everybody! 
I’m currently having some unexpected problems with the pixels array.
I have a canvas of 600x300, so I expect the array length to be 600x300x4=720 000.
Instead if I log it I get 4 times that, so 2 880 000.
What am I missing?
Hello @Yra,
Research.
A search for pixels at the p5.js site revealed this:
https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/pixels
The description has the answer.
Exploring the references is a part of my coding journey.
:)
Thank you both very much.
If course I read the P5 documentation, but evidently did not understand the pixelDensity.
When I console log it, it say 2, so my extra factor of 4 is 2x2.
What it’s not clear to me is:
what use has this? I mean, if an image is 2x5 pixels, I have 10 pixels and RGBA for each tallies up to 40 elements of an array. If this is suddendly 4 times as long, what other information do i have in this 160 long array?!
Hello,
From the reference for pixelDensity() :
Calling pixelDensity() with no arguments returns the current pixel density of the sketch.
Can you try this and what does it return?
:)
Thanks for the answer @glv
When I log it, the value is 2.
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Hello,
This image here may help you understand:
Set it to pixelDensity(1) to see the difference.
Regards,
glv