halftone picture
1Halftone picture — Растровое изображение …
2Halftone — For the music interval, see semitone. Left: Halftone dots. Right: How the human eye would see this sort of arrangement from a sufficient distance. Halftone is the reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of… …
3picture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. image, likeness, counterpart; portrayal, representation, view, scene, tableau, setting; drawing, painting, photograph, sketch, etching, engraving, canvas. See appearance. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A… …
4halftone — 1. noun a) Half the interval between two notes on a scale. b) A picture made by using the process of half toning. Syn: semitone 2. verb To r …
5Moiré pattern — Moiré and Moire redirect here. For other uses, see Moire (disambiguation) …
6pigment printing — A photographic printing method, in which a halftone picture results from pigments embedded in gelatin. The primary material is a paper called pigment paper , a paper coated with a mixture of gelatin and pigment. The paper is made light… …
7photoengraving — /foh toh en gray ving/, n. 1. a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing. 2. a plate so produced. 3. a print made from it. [1870 75; PHOTO + ENGRAVING] * * * Any of several processes for producing printing plates …
8photography, history of — Introduction method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the… …
9optics — /op tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision. [1605 15; < ML optica < Gk optiká, n. use of neut. pl. of OPTIKÓS; see OPTIC,… …
10printmaking — /print may king/, n. the art or technique of making prints, esp. as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy. [1925 30; PRINT + MAKING] * * * Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but… …
