Raster
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Raster may refer to:
  • Raster graphics
    Raster graphics
    In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium...

    , graphical techniques using arrays of pixel values
  • Raster graphics editor
    Raster graphics editor
    A raster graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular “bitmap” or “raster” formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF....

    , a computer program
  • Raster scan
    Raster scan
    A raster scan, or raster scanning, is the rectangular pattern of image capture and reconstruction in television. By analogy, the term is used for raster graphics, the pattern of image storage and transmission used in most computer bitmap image systems...

    , the pattern of image readout, transmission, storage, and reconstruction in television and computer images
  • Rasterisation
    Rasterisation
    Rasterisation is the task of taking an image described in a vector graphics format and converting it into a raster image for output on a video display or printer, or for storage in a bitmap file format....

    , or rasterization, conversion of a vector image to a raster image
  • Raster image processor
    Raster image processor
    A raster image processor is a component used in a printing system which produces a raster image also known as a bitmap. The bitmap is then sent to a printing device for output. The input may be a page description in a high-level page description language such as PostScript, Portable Document...

    , or RIP, a component of a printing system that performs rasterisation
  • Raster interrupt
    Raster interrupt
    A raster interrupt is a computer interrupt signal that is used for display timing purposes. It is usually, though not always, generated by the system's graphics chip....

    , a computer interrupt signal
  • Raster to vector
    Raster to vector
    In computer graphics, vectorization refers to the process of converting raster graphics into vector graphics.- Popular applications :*In computer-aided design drawings are scanned, vectorized and written as CAD files in a process called paper-to-CAD conversion or drawing conversion.*In geographic...

    , an image conversion process
  • Raster bar
    Raster bar
    The raster bar is an effect used in demos that displays animated horizontal bars of colour that extend into the overscan area of the display...

    , an effect used in computer demos
  • Raster-Noton
    Raster-Noton
    Raster-Noton is a German electronic music record label founded in 1996 by Olaf Bender, Carsten Nicolai and Frank Bretschneider. Based in Chemnitz, Germany, Raster-Noton merged in 1999 from separate labels Rastermusik and Noton .The collective label's aesthetic focus is rhythmic, minimal electronic...

    , a record label
  • Rastrum
    Rastrum
    A rastrum is a five-pointed writing implement used in music manuscripts to draw parallel staff lines. The word "raster" is derived from the Latin for "rake". Rastra were used to draw lines on paper that had not been pre-ruled, and were widely used in Europe until printed staff paper became cheap...

    , a device used in medieval music manuscripts to draw staff lines
  • Raster Document Object, a file format

People

  • Christian Raster
    Christian Raster
    Christian Raster was a statesman in Anhalt-Dessau and personal assistant to Leopold IV, [Duke] of Anhalt-Dessau. He had a son, Hermann Raster who was editor of Illinois Staats-Zeitung....

    , statesman in Anhalt-Dessau
  • Hermann Raster
    Hermann Raster
    Hermann Raster was a German Forty-Eighter, best known for his job as chief editor for the Illinois Staats-Zeitung between 1867 and 1891....

    (1827–1891), German Forty-Eighter
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