Friday, July 22, 2011

Vector Versus Bitmap

In these last years, design is important. More than feeding your fish, doing your homework, and repairing your old-PC. I'm not sure how important it is, but design is very very important in our daily life since it used in many aspects. Especially for graphic design. It used for many aspects. Starting from creating ads, building a web or blog, and etc. As we know that in graphic design the available kind of graphic to use is vector  based graphic and pixel based or bitmap graphic. Vector is a coordinate based picture, and bitmap is dot (.) or pixel based. By means vector is indestructible by zooming picture, and pixel will be a blur image with pixels if the zoom is strong enough. But in these many years, pixel were used in a very large amount to create a large image with high resolution, so it pixel won't appear, with an effect that the image created is using very large amount of memory. Meanwhile in vector, many user try to trace bitmap to vector without losing its details, and still using the main purpose of vector, using small amount of memory. So, which one is the most flexible in usage?
The answer is none of these is flexible. The process of creating these two kind of image will be using very long time if we want to create one of these kind of image to has the same properties to another. Well, it's kinda difficult to using both without losing our time. Well, we still found many of the media using vector, and pixel-based picture to fill their content. Once again its a matter of creativity.    

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