To draw the raster, a horizontal scanner moves the beam to draw a row of pixels.
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At its core, a raster image editor works by manipulating each individual pixel.
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These were largely supplanted by raster-based devices in the following decades.
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The term applies to raster digital images, film images, and other types of images.
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This tutorial uses the GIMP, but it can be used with most raster graphics editors.
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This image was uploaded in a raster graphics format such as PNG, GIF, or JPEG.
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This map image was uploaded in a raster graphics format such as PNG, GIF, or JPEG.
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Raster data will not have all the characteristics of the features it displays.
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What you created is a vector image without any vectors, just raster elements.
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The rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor
A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen; A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines
(rastering) The rendering of an image using rasters
(Rastering) Converting a digital bit stream to black, white or 16 shades of gray that make up a picture.
A synonym for grid. Sometimes used to refer to the grid of addressable positions in an output device.
A net of lines referring to a basic measurement.
One or more overlapping layers for the same grid or digital image.
The scan pattern on a display, such as the computer screen or television cathode-ray tube, in which the images are formed by a scanning electron beam that moves in horizontal and vertical lines over the area. The images on a raster display are made up of many tiny dots called pixels. ...
Scanning pattern used in generating, recording or reproducing television, facsimile or graphics images on a screen.