Image Compression

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Image Compression

Key question

  • What is it that digital displays actually store so you can see what's being displayed?

What are pixels?

picture elements

pixel

(an element is a part of something)

Pixels in black and white

How could a computer store this image as numbers?

We’ve just discussed run-length encoding

Completed run-length encoding

What is it that digital displays actually store so you can see what’s being displayed?

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