Raster

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Raster refers to a row-oriented representation of images such as one of the following items:

  • Raster graphics, graphical techniques using arrays of pixel values
  • Raster scan, the pattern of image readout, transmission, storage, and recontruction in television and computer images.
  • Rasterisation, or rasterization, conversion of a vector image to a raster image
  • Raster image processor or RIP, a component of a printing system that performs rasterization
  • Raster to vector an image conversion process
  • Raster has also been used to refer to the Rastrum, a device used in medieval music manuscripts to draw staff lines.