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Raster Image: Q2: What Is Raster and Vector Images? Explain With Example

Raster images are composed of pixels arranged in a grid, with each pixel represented by binary data indicating its color. They are stored in bitmap formats. Vector images use polygons and mathematical formulas to represent images by defining points, lines, shapes, and colors. While raster images lose quality when resized larger, vector images can be resized without loss of quality since their appearance is defined by formulas rather than pixels. Examples of raster uses include computer displays and digital photos, while vector graphics are useful for printing, animation, embroidery, and graphic design due to their scalability.

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Raster Image: Q2: What Is Raster and Vector Images? Explain With Example

Raster images are composed of pixels arranged in a grid, with each pixel represented by binary data indicating its color. They are stored in bitmap formats. Vector images use polygons and mathematical formulas to represent images by defining points, lines, shapes, and colors. While raster images lose quality when resized larger, vector images can be resized without loss of quality since their appearance is defined by formulas rather than pixels. Examples of raster uses include computer displays and digital photos, while vector graphics are useful for printing, animation, embroidery, and graphic design due to their scalability.

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Q2: What is raster and vector images? Explain with example.

Raster Image
In computer graphics, a raster graphics or bitmap image is a dot matrix
data structure, representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via
a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in image files with varying
formats.
OR
A raster is technically characterized by the width and height of the image in pixels and by the
number of bits per pixel (or color depth, which determines the number of colors it can represent).
OR
The word "raster" has its origins in the Latin rastrum (a rake), which is derived from radere (to
scrape). It originates from the raster scan of cathode ray tube (CRT) video monitors, which paint the
image line by line by magnetically steering a focused electron beam. By association, it can also refer
to a rectangular grid of pixels.

Examples
Computer displays
Most modern computers have bitmapped displays, where each on-
screen pixel directly corresponds to a small number of bits in memory. The screen is refreshed
simply by scanning through pixels and coloring them according to each set of bits. The refresh
procedure, being speed critical, is often implemented by dedicated circuitry, often as a part of
a graphics processing unit.

Image storage
Most computer images are stored in raster graphics formats or compressed
variations, including GIF, JPEG, and PNG, which are popular on the World Wide Web.

Geographic information systems


GIS programs commonly use rasters that encode geographic data in the pixel values as well as the
pixel locations.
Vector graphics
Vector graphics is the use of polygons to represent images in computer
graphics. Vector graphics are based on vectors, which lead through locations called control points or
nodes. Each of these points has a definite position on the x- and y-axes of the work plane and
determines the direction of the path; further, each path may be assigned various attributes, including
such values as stroke color, shape, curve, thickness, and fill.
OR

Vector graphics is the creation of digital images through a sequence of commands or


mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given two-dimensional or three-
dimensional space. In physics, a vector is a representation of both a quantity and a direction at
the same time.

Uses For Vector Images


1. Printing On Paper And Clothes
There are fundamentally two different ways in which something gets printed on paper or
clothes:
1. Rasterized printing - there are many printing techniques that fall under this general
category. While the quality and feel of the end result may differ between them, it
boils down to printing pixels on either paper or clothes. The most common printer
types that most consumers are familiar with such as inkjet and laser printers fall into
this category. There are even industrial inkjet style printers that can print on clothes.
2. Shape printing - again, there are many printing techniques that fall under this
general category. While the quality and feel of the end result may differ between
them, it boils down to cutting or extruding the shapes of the input vector image in
some base material (silk screens, copper plates, other) that is then used to transfer
the relevant color to the right place on the end product.

Service Providers
There are tens of thousands of custom print shops around the globe. It would not be
practical to list even a small fraction of these - for most printing needs we recommend
checking your local yellow pages.
There are a number of larger websites that offer different types of printing on clothes. Some
of these are:

 Spreadshirt
 Zazzle
 Cafe Press
These are listed for your reference and inclusion in this list does not constitute an
endorsement by Vector Magic.

Sign Making
Signs come in all shapes and sizes and many of them are made using some form of vector
image original.
While the specific production processes vary, one of them includes cutting the relevant
colors from vinyl.

Embroidery
Computer-controlled sewing machines can quickly stitch custom designs onto different
kinds of clothing. This process typically requires vector input to work at all - the machine
needs to be steered to stitch out the relevant shapes and that can't be done using only pixel
based information.

General Graphic Design


Graphic design is done in many ways with many tools, but the versatility and flexibility of
vector images make them a very natural canvas to use when creating different forms of
graphics such as logos or drawings.

Animations
A lot of the smooth animations and creative art you see in animated content online is done
using vector images inside HTML5 or Adobe Flash animations.
Rasters and vectors defined
A raster image is made of up
pixels, each a different color, arranged to display an image. A vector image is made up of
paths, each with a mathematical formula (vector) that tells the path how it is shaped and
what color it is bordered with or filled by. The major difference is that raster image pixels do
not retain their appearance as size increases - when you blow a photograph up, it becomes
blurry for this reason. Vector images do retain appearance regardless of size, since the
mathematical formulas dictate how the image is rendered.

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