A bitmapped image is one made from an array of dots rather than continuous lines or areas.
this is what often occurs at the client's end when there is a problem with an EPS map or graphic in a weather page. A novice client will often use terms such as "squiggily", "fax-like", "jagged" and "rough" to describe a bitmapped image. Another indication that the graphic is bitmapped is that the text on the map or graphic may be unreadable. NP graphics will request the client to at least fax the part of the weather page containing the graphic to confirm or dismiss bitmapping as a preliminary trouble-shooting procedure.
Image consisting entirely of pixels (small squares of uniform size arranged in a grid). The resolution, or quality, of a bitmapped image is measured in dots per inch (DPI).
A graphic that is made up of a grid of colored pixels, like a tiny mosiac. See also vector graphic.
A graphic or character represented by pixels or dots that display the graphic's light or dark spots arranged horizontally and vertically. Each pixel is indicated as a 1 (dark spot) or a 0 (light spot) to the computer in binary code.
A graphic image stored as a specific arrangement of screen dots, or pixels. Web graphics are bitmap images. A graphic which is defined by specifying the colors of dots or pixels which make up the picture. Common types of bitmap graphics are GIF, JPEG and TIFF.
a low resolution image where you can see the individual squares, dots or pixels that make up the total image. The lines and shapes of an image appear jagged or "pixelated." (See pixelation).
An image that is stored as 2-dimensional array of bits (hence bit-map) or pixels. This image may be written directly to the screen/canvas.
A collection of bits (dots) in memory that represent the scanned image. The display on the screen is a visible bitmapped image.
An image composed of grids of pixels or dots.
also referred to as "pixilated" used to refer to an image that has too low of a resolution or linescreen for the output resolution ("That image looks bitmapped."; line art scanned at 72 dpi (typical web site graphic) when it is to be printed at 2540 dpi will be very coarsely bitmapped).
