PSDTuts : Also, it’s a good point that it can be hard to distinguish between vectors, vexels, and how they are composed. In a technical sense vexels are composed of vector shapes when being created. Though a finished artwork is considered a vexel once exported to pixel format, not flash, svg, or some alternative. Technically, any vector graphic exported to pixel format can be reffered to as a vexel.

I do not know where exactly Vexels came from, only that suddenly sometime last year I found a bunch of people making them. I'm still rather confused on what a vexel is, and this particular belief that even vector art saved in a pixel format constitutes as vexel(ing?) only confuses me further.

Discuss! I want outside opinions. u__u

Yeah the whole technicality thing between vexel and vector has never made sense to me, even though I've heard of (if not actually seen) people get heated about differences and championing vexel as an unique style. Now I more or less associate a real attention to detail and photo-realistic styles to vexeling. Like,
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Whereas pieces with more simplistic/obvious color shapes I associate with vectoring. Like
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Definitely not part of any "official" definitions of vexelling and vectoring and there are a lot of pieces that would fall in between the spectrum, but the photo-realistic style is more or less what struck me most when I first started poking into vexel categories. The only example to illustrate that quoted definition that made a small iota of sense to me is if people mixed say stock photographs with vectors, the result would be a vexel.

I like the wiki's definition of vexel better -

This is the first I've heard of a vexel O.o I think I'm still lost. Is it more a technique difference? That's what I gathered from the Wiki article...

I thought it's pretty straight on...work in something that uses PATHS like AI and save it as Jpeg it would become a vexel, must be just some weird labelling to announce that it was vector at first but since u hafta upload it to a place that just accepts "pixel" files they hafta label it something

since usually vector really just matters when you print something so that when you blow it up whatever size you want to, it wont lose its quality...

that's what i think :'D

I think you've just confused me further, but I think it makes sense? I just think that it should still constitute as a vector if that's how you do it. I was kind of under the impression that vexeling was kind of like using the lasso tool, or rasterizing your paths, not so much the act of saving it.

well a vector isn't a vector anymore if it's turned into a jpeg...since it was rasterized therefore no more paths...to be emo about it IT ISN'T THE SAME ANYMORE :'( lol it doesn't have the capability of being the same quality even when blown up at a humongous size... so i would think they should have labelled it VEXED lol all that work for nothing >_>