Digital Media Flashcards
What is a pixel?
A tiny coloured square shaped port of a screen.
What does resolution mean?
The amount of pixels on a screen or an image.
What does colour depth mean?
The amount of differing colours on a screen or an image.
What’s a bitmap?
An image made up of pixels.
What’s the official definition of a bitmap?
A mapping from some domain to bits.
What is a vector image?
An image made up of points, lives and curves that are based of mathematical equations.
Can a vector image be a real photo?
No
What’s happens to bitmap when you zoom in?
The individual pixels become visible.
What happens when you zoom into a vector image?
The image is adjusted accordingly using mathematical equations.
What are the three colours that individual pixels can be?
Red, Green, Blue
What is colour depth measured in?
Bits
Which tends to have a larger file size - vector or bitmap?
Bitmap
Is a font likely to be a bitmap or a vector?
Vector
