Upper row: maps of the normalized continuum intensity near 630 nm at original resolution of the MHD simulation (left panel) and after convolving with the Hinode/SP PSF and rebinning to SP detector pixels (right panel). Yellow contours outline the areas identified by the pore exclusion procedure. Lower row: maps of the vertical magnetic field component at local optical depth τ₆₃₀ = 0.1 for original resolution of the simulation (left panel) and of the line-of-sight magnetic field derived from the inversion of synthetic Stokes profiles (right panel).