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Raster display; Raster scan display; Raster (disambiguation)

raster         
<hardware> The area of a video display that is covered by sweeping the electron beam of the display in a series of horizontal lines from top to bottom. The beam then returns to the top during the vertical flyback interval. See also CRT, frame buffer. (1995-03-22)
raster         
['rast?]
¦ noun a rectangular pattern of parallel scanning lines followed by the electron beam on a television screen or computer monitor.
Origin
1930s: from Ger. Raster, lit. 'screen', from L. rastrum 'rake'.
Raster graphics         
  • reflection]] (almost free), either before or afterwards, amounts to a 90° image rotation in one direction or the other.
  • A simple raster graphic
  • Using a raster to summarize a point pattern.
DOT MATRIX DATA STRUCTURE, REPRESENTING A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR GRID OF PIXELS, OR POINTS OF COLOR, VIEWABLE VIA A MONITOR, PAPER, OR OTHER DISPLAY MEDIUM
Bit-mapped graphics; Bitmap graphics; Raster image; Raster format; Raster Graphics; Pixelmap; Bitmapped; Raster images; Bit-Mapped Graphics; Rastor; Bitmapped graphics; Bitmapped image; Raster graphic; Rasterized image; Video raster; Raster data; Bitmapped display; Raster drawing; Contones; Gridded data
smiley face] in the top left corner is a raster image. When enlarged, individual pixels appear as squares.

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Raster

Raster may refer to:

  • Raster graphics, graphical techniques using arrays of pixel values
  • Raster graphics editor, a computer program
  • Raster scan, the pattern of image readout, transmission, storage, and reconstruction in television and computer images
  • Rasterisation, or rasterization, conversion of a vector image to a raster image
  • Raster image processor, or RIP, a component of a printing system that performs rasterisation
  • Raster interrupt, a computer interrupt signal
  • Raster to vector, an image conversion process
  • Raster bar, an effect used in computer demos
  • Raster-Noton, a record label
  • Rastrum, a device used in medieval music manuscripts to draw staff lines
  • Raster Document Object, a file format
Pronunciation examples for raster
1. which are not raster pixels?
Timelapse on Google Earth Engine _ Randy Sargent _ Talks at Google
2. pixel by pixel, then encode them raster line by raster line
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3. that's not raster, that's not image-based.
Timelapse on Google Earth Engine _ Randy Sargent _ Talks at Google
4. It comes from a raster satellite.
Timelapse on Google Earth Engine _ Randy Sargent _ Talks at Google
5. So it is a raster product.
Timelapse on Google Earth Engine _ Randy Sargent _ Talks at Google