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Comment by crdrost | Hacker News Reader

It's a rectangular grid. People aren't going to troll with dicks, but swastikas.

Virtually all monitors are rectangular grids

You could sorta kinda claim that most OLED displays are not rectangular [1], since only green is at full resolution, with blue and red being at a partial resolution, by sharing those sub pixels between "logical" pixels.

[1] https://www.oled-info.com/gs5-diamond-pixel-architecture-not...

Note for anyone confused, this is about AMOLED displays commonly used in phones and some OLED laptops from a few years ago.

W-OLED and QD-OLED have unconventional layouts compared to LCDs but every pixel has the complete set of sub pixels (RGB for QD-OLED, RGBW for W-OLED) so it looks more like this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Just mentioning as while AMOLED phones being the majority of OLED displays seems plausible to me, it's likely not what people in this thread are picturing when they see OLED.

And yet https://mastodon.scot/@rasteri/112683926331617000 was found within the first 2 hours of the FediVerse post.

Honourable mentions go to the TARDIS picture at https://mstdn.ca/@Chigaze/112683847369819438 and the Sierpiński gasket attempt at https://mastodon.online/@Zotmeister/112684295968651688 .

Shortly after posting this to HN I drew Tux at position 99999. It's long gone now, of course.

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