Image Representation

Intuitively, we can imagine what an image is. But what about for computers? How do computers represent and stores pictures on a disk, a medium that only works in bits and bytes?

In this episode, we study some of the techniques used, making reference to related theories like the Tristimulus Theory for the representation of color. We also learn about numerical representation on disk using bits and bytes, as well as how we can used techniques such as indexed color and dithering to reduce file size while retaining quality.

Finally, we also look at some compression techniques like run-length encoding and Huffman Coding (very briefly) to see how we can further reduce upon file size.


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