Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Graphics Types

Bitmap

stores the colour (in binary) of every individual pixel

+ edit individual pixels
- fixed resolution (can only print at the resolution its saved at)
- saves the full screen, even if nothing there
- you can't layer object

Vector

stores the image as a list of objects storing their attributes (e.g shape, x and y co-ordinates, line thickness, colour)

+ Resolution Independant
+ can layer objects
+ can edit the individual objects
- can't edit individual pixels

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