February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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Computer image basics
Before we jump into processing and manipulating digital image files, we first need to discuss the fundamentals of those files, and how computers interpret data from them. Specifically, we need to understand how data regarding the colors and coordinates of individual pixels in an image file is represented, and how to extract it using Python.