November 10, 2004
Rasterize is an excellent new word.
Go big or stay home.
To rasterize (v): The act of converting a document from a page definition language (e.g., PostScript) to an arrangement of pixels on the page or screen. Stated simply, rasterizing is the interpretation of an image from a set of digital codes into an actual visual representation. When one prints out a page from a layout or design application, the image is rasterized into an array of dots, which are then impressed upon the page. I like reading the New York Times. ;-)
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What, that old thing?
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Old is the new black. ;-)
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It is a very cool app. Feed your rasterbated image through the rasterbator again for extra rasterized fun (hint: keep the dot size and print size small for the first round, and rotate the image with Photoshop fifteen degrees before feeding it again).
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I could never figure out how some of the ones in the gallery have such a great resolution. I'm assuming maybe it has something to do with the dpi of the image.
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But with a limit of 1MB per image upload, surely there's a limit to how high the dpi of the image can go?
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The resolution at size is usually due to one of two things: optical illusion or large image. If you use starker images, you can usually cheat and enlargethem without the fuzziness degredation that intricate images get. And what I mean by a larger image is not file size, but actual size. To increase a file's physical size, you actually decrease the dpi as you scale up. But if you start with a larger image, since you're scaling up less, it has less distortion on a larger scale (if that makes sense).
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New word?! Rasterize dates back to at least the 70s.