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Blown to Bits: Chapter 3Algorithm - correct answer ✔Computer procedure for operations.
ASCII (American Standard Code Information Interexchange) - correct answer
✔Encoding standard for representing text characters using one byte.
Cryptography - correct answer ✔Process of turning regular text into an
unreadable version. Reversible with key.
Plaintext -> ciphertext and vice-versa.
Digital - correct answer ✔Expressed as series of the digits 0 and 1.
Digital Signal - correct answer ✔Signal where data is represented as a 1 or
0, positive or negative.
Lossless Compression - correct answer ✔Data compression techniques in
which no data is lost (no loss of quality).
In music, FLAC, AAC, and WAV are a few.
For pictures, PNG and TIFF, among others.
Though "Lossy" formats mean quality is lost, they makes files smaller, useful
in the past when mp3-players had memory in MB, not GB.
Megabyte - correct answer ✔1 million bytes
, Megapixels - correct answer ✔1 million pixels.
OCR (Optical character recognition) - correct answer ✔Involves reading text
from images and translating the images into a series of character codes that
can be edited by a computer.
Pixels - correct answer ✔Like the "atoms" of a computer display. Each pixel
displays a color.
Raster - correct answer ✔Graphics format consisting of a matrix of dots
(pixels).
An image based on pixels.
Modeling - correct answer ✔Representation of real objects, created through
the use of software like CAD.
A model can be just a shell or be full.
The points that make up the model are connected by lines, surfaces, etc.
Like Lego, I guess.
Render - correct answer ✔Creation of an image from a 2D or 3D model.
Also, the results of displaying such a model can be called a render.
Can also be done in 3D.
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