Isometric Pixel Art(IPA) is not just something that looks like 3D or a perspective drawing.
It is a way to create a scene, an object or a character by starting with two pixels across and one pixel to form a single line. That is IPA in essence. Each separate IPA image is always going to made up of single computer generated blocks, known as pixels. The word isometric means “of equal measure”. So by seeing these graphics we notice that there is no perspective and it always ends up having the measurement.
IPA's History
The term 'pixel', for picture element, was first published by Fred C. Billingsley and were propagated within the image processing and video coding field for more than a decade before they appeared in textbooks in the late 1970s and then it grows and used widely as a form of graphics.
IPA's Findings
What I found out about IPA is drawn in a near-isometric dimetric projection. To get a neat pattern of an isometric angle, line with a 1:2 pixel ratio, leading to an angle of approximately, 26.565 degrees rather than 30 degrees. Non-isometric pixel art is any pixel art that does not fall in the isometric category called Planometric views (top, side, front, bottom).
Source of IPA
IPA usually can be found in most old computer and video games such as nintendo. Another use of pixel art on modern desktop computers is favicons. Pixel art still remains popular and has been used in the virtual world Citypixel as well among handheld devices such as the Nintendo and Cellphones.Besides, most of the graphic designers use pixel into their work. Common uses of pixel design include print and broadcast media, web design and games such as logos with different design elements.
Links Of The Research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art
http://www.rhysd.com/tutorial/chapter1.html
http://shonegold.deviantart.com/journal/14527091/
http://www.19.5degs.com/element/832.php
http://www.foveon.com/files/ABriefHistoryofPixel2.pdf
http://www.19.5degs.com/element/869.php#Pixel+art+tutorial
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