Aspect ratio

Aspect ratio refers to the of width to height of a pixel, image, or monitor display screen.
==Description==
A square (PAR) of 1:1 is considered preferable, but early televisions used as analog computer displays had a PAR of 8:9 () or 16:15 ().. 1996-02-09. Bill Atkinson was a proponent of implementing square pixels in the original Macintosh display, which was implemented by Burrell Smith.Square Dots by Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore. 1981-04.
The overall aspect ratio of analog CRT displays was usually 4:3, the same as that of analog s.. 1996-02-09. With the digital transition to HDTV, the preferred aspect ratio has widened to 16:9.Getting from 4:3 to 16:9 by Michael Robin, TV Tech. 2001-06-01.
==References==
==External links==
* at Wikipedia
Category:Graphical terminology
Category:Monitors