Chapter 9 Drawing Images
A bitmap image is a rectangular array of image samples (also called pixels), with each sample representing a single color value at a particular location in the image. There are a wide variety of sources of images. Digital cameras produce bitmap photographic images directly. Digital scanners can produce images from a wide variety of source material. Quartz produces bitmap image data when it renders to a bitmap context. Pixel painting programs produce images through human interaction. Images can be produced synthetically, such as with special-purpose rendering software to algorithmically produce a rendered scene. Figure 9.1. illustrates a few different image sources.
Figure 9.1 Images come from many sources, such as photographs, ...
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