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Understanding Pixels and Compression Techniques

The document discusses the representation of a line of text on a screen using pixels, specifically black and white pixels. It describes a data compression technique that transforms the pixel data into a more compact format. Additionally, it introduces the concept of lossy compression, which refers to a method that reduces file size by permanently eliminating some data, potentially affecting quality.

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Understanding Pixels and Compression Techniques

The document discusses the representation of a line of text on a screen using pixels, specifically black and white pixels. It describes a data compression technique that transforms the pixel data into a more compact format. Additionally, it introduces the concept of lossy compression, which refers to a method that reduces file size by permanently eliminating some data, potentially affecting quality.

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1. A screen contains black text on a solid white background.

One line of the screen


might be represented as follows with W representing white pixel and B
representing a black pixel.
WWWWWWBBBWWWWWWWWWWWWBBBBBBWBBBWWWW

a) Explain what the term pixel means.

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Compression technique is applied to the line of data and results in the following:

6W3B12W6B1W3B4W

b) State what data compression algorithm has been applied.

c) Another data compression technique is JPEG, which is a lossy compression


algorithm. Explain what is meant by lossy compression?

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