| Painting by number
A picture or image is a plane representation of a real object.
Pictures are everywhere in our societies, e.g., drawings, paintings,
photographs, and so on. Recently digital images have been flooding
the field. These images are composed of very large numbers of very
small dots whose colours (or intensities) are defined by figures
(hence digital from digits). These dots
are called pixels, from the contraction of picture
elements.
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