raster
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1. raster - Noun
2. raster - Verb
Meaning
the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor
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Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
A laser beam (laser writer) or a beam of electrons (e-beam writer) is used to expose the pattern defined by the data file and travels over the surface of the substrate in either a vector or raster scan manner.
An image viewer program is usually preferred over a raster graphics editor for viewing images.
DVI files can only contain references to typefaces, rather than the sets of raster or vector glyphs that other formats like PostScript allow.
A low-resolution raster graphic would blur or pixelate excessively if it were enlarged from business card size to billboard size.
Assuming that the display screen has a fixed size, higher magnification results from reducing the size of the raster on the specimen, and vice versa.