GRAPHICS ELEMENT Flashcards
(51 cards)
is a spatial representation of an object,
a two-dimensional or three-dimensional scene or
another image.
image
images reflect the
____ of lights.
intensity
Most photographs are called _______ because the method used to develop the photograph creates the illusion of perfect continuous tone throughout the image
continuous-tone images
- Images stored and processed by computers,
displayed on computer screens, are called
digital
images
The smallest element on a digital image is known as a
pixel
is the number of bits used to represent
each pixel.
depth
black-and-white image, also called bitmap image
1-bit
can represent 16 colors, used in low resolution screens
(EGA/VGA)
4-bit
can have 256 colors. The 256 color images are often
known as indexed color images.
8-bit
256 grey-levels. The image contains only
brightness/intensity data without color information.
8-bit grey
can have 65,536 colors, also known
as hi
-color in Windows systems.
16-bit
2^24 = 16,777,216 colors, true color.
Each byte is used to represent the intensity
of a primary color, RED, GREEN and BLUE.
Each color can have 256 different levels.
24 -bit
2^32= 4,294,967,296 (4G). Usually, 3
bytes are used to represent the three
primary colors and the fourth byte is used
as the alpha channel.
32-bit
measures how much detail an image can have
Resolution
is the number of pixels in an image.
Image resolution
refers to number of dots per inch
(dpi) on a monitor
Display (Monitor) resolution
refers to number of dots per inch (dpi) on a
(hard copy) output device.
Output resolution
Instead of using pixels, objects can be
represented by their attributes, such as
size, color, location, and so on. This type
of graphics is known as
- This is an abstract representation of a 2-
dimensional or 3-dimensional scene.
* A __ file contains graphics
primitives, for example, rectangles,
circles, lines.
vector graphics,
or vector drawing.
There are many languages for describing vector graphics. Three of them are very popular. They are:
PostScript
Virtual Reality Markup
Language
Scalable Vector
Graphic.
was developed by Adobe as a page
description language
PostScript
It is for describing a
scene in a virtual
world.
Virtual Reality Markup
Language or VRML
It is a language for describing two dimensional graphics in XML.
SVG or Scalable Vector
Graphic
- contains an exact pixel-by pixel value of an image
- is easier to render
Bitmap
three types of graphic
objects
vector graphic shapes,
images and text.