How Digital Images Really Work

We take digital images for allot these twenty-four hours — hell , you ’re looking at gobs right now . But when you stop and think about how the 3D world can be represented so neatly by 1D datum stored on a unvoiced drive , it ’s really utterly awe-inspiring .

In this telecasting , Mike Pound explain how digital persona really work . They ’re perhaps not as fluffy and user - friendly as you might think , at least at the electronic computer - degree : they ’re not neatly stored as a 2D matrix , but or else as a long tilt that operate on and on and on and on … Anyway , over to Mike to excuse how all these images are really stored . [ Computerphile ]

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