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 Imagine we have the following simple black and white image.
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 <img alt="A diamond shape made out of pixels" class="" src="{% static 'pixel-diamond.png' %}"/>
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 One very simple way a computer can store this image in binary is by using a format where '0' means white and '1' means black (this is a "bit map", because we've mapped the pixels onto the values of bits). Using this method, the above image would be represented in the following way:
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