Image Data

Basic digital image data is a stream of numbers, representing pixel colors


1 239 120 1 1 37 94 8 92 31 80 92 134 89 2 3 50 9 3 10 93 109 134  ...

Important additional information is:


Total memory needed for a simple image:

    width * height * components * bytes_per_component

e.g. a 512x512, RGB, 8-bit image requires 768 kilobytes