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What is a digital image?

Professor Andy French explains what digital images consist of, and how that pixel data is formatted and accessed

We’re all familiar with digital images. But what data is actually contained within them, and how is it organised?

We also discuss the difference between data in RGB (colour) and grayscale (black and white) images.

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