With the amount of data being sent through computer displays, would it ever be feasible to move away from rectangular pixels on screens?

Question

Wondering because I was watching a youtube video and noticed that at a low resolution, you just can’t display an equilateral triangle nicely

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Answer 1

Pixels (usually) aren’t singular rectangles, as much as they are 3 lines side by side which in aggregate forms a singular rectangle. Each line is a color of red, green, or blue. Unless we start having a triangular screen, it’d be hard to tile those triangles in a way that is perfectly regular with each pixel. (Triangles tile the plane, but not if every triangle is in the same orientation, like rectangles or squares do)

Some screens use a different 5 color grid of nonlines, but overall, they still form a single rectangle, so it is about the same.