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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia
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An Introduction to Digital Multimedia

by T.M. Savage, K.E. Vogel
October 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
335 pages
13h 31m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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2.7 Error Detection and Correction
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very large since each pixel is represented with a series of bits that provide information
about its color. Run length encoding generates a code to “flag” the beginning of a line of
pixels of the same color. That color information is then recorded just once for each pixel.
In effect, RLE tells the computer to repeat a color for a given number of adjacent pixels
rather than repeating the same information for each pixel over and over. The RLE com-
pressed file will be smaller, but it will retain all the original image data—it is “lossless.”
2.7 Error Detection and Correction
Digital data consists of long strings ...
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