SEAC and the Start of Image Processing at the National Bureau of Standards

by Russell A. Kirsch

Ravenna mosaic of waterfowl with man crouched in background

Mosaics in Ravenna, Italy

A sixth century mosaic from Ravenna. It contains about 80 x 46 tesserae, each carefully chosen both in shape and in color to represent the structure of the image at that location. If we recreate this mosaic with even more (100 x 58) square pixels, in the common engineering manner, each having multiple colors, we get the much inferior image in Figure 3.


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