Reading and Setting Pixels
Go Up to Using the Properties of the Canvas Object
You will notice that every canvas has an indexed Pixels property that represents the individual colored points that make up the image on the canvas. You rarely need to access Pixels directly, it is available only for convenience to perform small actions such as finding or setting a pixel's color.
Note: Setting and getting individual pixels is thousands of times slower than performing graphics operations on regions. Do not use the Pixel array property to access the image pixels of a general array. For high-performance access to image pixels, see the TBitmap.ScanLine property