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Digital Video and HD
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Digital Video and HD

by Charles Poynton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
30h 54m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Raster images in
computing
4
This chapter places video into the context of
computing. Images in computing are represented in
three forms, depicted schematically in the three
rows
of
Figure 4.1 overleaf:
symbolic image description, raster
image,
and
compressed image.
9 A
symbolic image description does
not directly
contain an image, but contains a high-level 2-D or 3-D
geometric description of an image, such as its objects
and their properties. A two-dimensional image in this
form is sometimes called a
vector graphic,
though its
primitive objects are usually much more complex than
the straight-line segments
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ISBN: 9781558607927