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Data Representation Worksheet 4 Images

The document discusses representing images digitally in computers. It explains that images with fewer colors require fewer bits per pixel. Increasing image resolution increases file size. Higher quality images with more details and colors also have larger file sizes. The document demonstrates how images are stored as binary data and how modifying individual pixel values affects the image. It introduces the concept of image compression using Run Length Encoding to store repeated pixel data more efficiently.

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Data Representation Worksheet 4 Images

The document discusses representing images digitally in computers. It explains that images with fewer colors require fewer bits per pixel. Increasing image resolution increases file size. Higher quality images with more details and colors also have larger file sizes. The document demonstrates how images are stored as binary data and how modifying individual pixel values affects the image. It introduces the concept of image compression using Run Length Encoding to store repeated pixel data more efficiently.

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Worksheet 4 Images

Unit 1 Data representation

Worksheet 4: Images
Task 1
(a) This image uses four colours so requires 2 bits per pixel. Shade in the image as a computer
using the key.

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 00 10

10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 00 10

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 00 10

10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 10 00 00 00 10

10 00 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

10 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 01 01

10 10 10 10 11 11 10 10 10 10 11 11 10 10

00 00 00 00 11 11 00 00 00 00 11 11 00 00

Key: 01 00 11 10

(b) Calculate the file size of the following images:

Image Number of Colour depth File size in File size in


Resolution colours in bits bits Bytes
Image 1 20 x 20 8
Image 2 10 x 10 8
Image 3 20 x 20 4

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Unit 1 Data representation

(c) How does increasing the image resolution affect the file size?

(d) Explain the relationship between image quality and file size.

Task 2
If you have access to computers with Photoshop or a similar graphics package installed that will
handle .PBM files, you can demonstrate the effect of editing individual pixel values in binary.
 Open the file Boat.pbm in Photoshop.
 Open the file again in Notepad. This displays the binary values representing the boat:
10 10
0000100000
0001100000
0011101000
0111101100
1111101110
0000101000
1111111111
0111111110
0011111110
0000000000
 Using Notepad, alter the 0s and 1s, save it with a different name and open the amended
file in Photoshop.
 You should see the effect of your changes!

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Task 3
Image Compression

Look at the image below: 14px

10px

11011010 00100101 00110010 10100101

The first and second rows of the image above would be stored as 14 lots of 11011010:

11011010, 11011010, 11011010, 11011010, 11011010, 11011010, 11011010,


11011010, 11011010, 11011010, 11011010, 11011010¸ 11011010, 11011010

The same data could be stored as 00001110-11011010 (14 [binary 00001110] lots of
11011010) without losing any information required to piece together the image again.
This is known as RLE or Run Length Encoding.

Record the data for the third, fourth and fifth lines in the image:
Line
number Binary image data

1 00001110-11011010

2 00001110-11011010

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