Thursday, September 20, 2007

2) What is the difference between VECTOR and BITMAP graphics? Explain both terms.

vectors are digital images created by placing lines and shapes in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. Some animation images are created as vector files.
www.gslis.utexas.edu/~vlibrary/glossary

bitmap=Representation of a document as an image file in digital form. For black and white images, each bit represents one unit of information. Logical 1 represents black and logical 0 represents white (bitonal). This allocation originates in printing where 1 = true = print black. Other allocations also exist. Gray-level and color information are represented in the same way, whereby the gray or color value of a pixel is defined by several bitmaps.
www.imageware.de/en/support/glossar/

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