Copyright (c) Susan Laflin. August 1999.

For the full detail of this area, you will have to turn to the literature on image-processing. However some discussion of this is relevant to Computer Graphics. For example, in GKS, the "cellarray" primitive may be used to provide limited facilites for defining and using small patterns or images.

Introduction

The first section includes bit-pattern text, pixel planes, half-toning, GKS cell array function and the use of these techniques for heraldic designs.

Compression Techniques.