Chapter 19. Manipulating Images and Bitmaps
The graphics you explored in Chapter 18, "Drawing and Painting with Visual Basic 2008," are called vector graphics because they're based on geometric descriptions and they can be scaled to any extent. Because they're based on mathematical equations, you can draw any details of the picture without losing any accuracy. You can zoom into a tiny section of an ellipse, for example, and never lose any detail because the ellipse is redrawn every time.
Vector graphics, however, can't be used to describe the type of images you capture with your digital camera. These images belong to a different category of graphics: bitmap graphics or raster graphics. A bitmap is a collection of colored pixels arranged in rows ...
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