Before understanding the science behind vector animation, it's important to know the difference between the two major graphic types: bitmap and vector graphics.

Illustrator is a popular Adobe application for creating vector graphics, one of the two main forms of computer graphics. Unlike bitmap images, vector graphics are mathematically generated and retain ...

Photo-Paint The other important component of the CorelDraw Graphics Suite is Photo-Paint, which, as the name suggests, provides tools for photo-editing and bitmap graphics.

In the Mac’s early days, bitmap graphics were a big deal. Not every computer could display images, and even the ones that could didn’t do it very well. Apple’s Bill Atkinson developed a ...

This can make it difficult if you want to output full-bitmap graphics on the Apple II – but it is certainly possible. [cybernesto] set about completing this task, and released VBMP on GitHub.

Unlike traditional bitmap graphics, which are made up of an array of pixels, vector graphics consist of lines, curves and shapes that are based on geometric formulas. Not only do they take up far less ...

I still joke that there's nothing new under the sun, and bitmap graphics are like mosaics and needlepoint and other pseudo-digital art forms, all of which I had practiced before going to Apple.