ASCI CODE

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Each character is stored in a byte
0100 0001 represents the letter A

Can represent 128 symbols in total

Most common code in use
Allows computers world-wide to communicate.

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01001001 01101100 01101111 01101111 01110110 01001000
01010111
What problems have you uncovered about using
code

What happens if one computer stores A as 01000010
and another as 01000001?

Do character sets only store letters?

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UNICODE
16 bit character set.
Over 65000 characters.
Can represent all (well nearly) characters of all languages.
Includes ASCII coding

Why would this be useful for computers?

REPRESENTING
IMAGES
Bitmapped Images:
http://www.slideshare.net/cunniman/how-computers-represent-
graphics-8717067

Hexadecimal Representation
http://www.mathsisfun.com/hexadecimal-decimal-colors.html

Vector Images:
http://www.slideshare.net/cunniman/representation-of-vector-
graphics






IMPACT OF COLOUR PALETTES
HOW IT WORKS
Digitizer:
A device that is used to convert an image to numbers
representing a pixel form of the image.

Number of pixels = Resolution
Example: 800 x 600 = 480,000 pixels
2
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1
0

800
600