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2.2 Greyscale Images

Greyscale images are matrices where the matrix elements can take on values from to . The rendering on a video screen is a presentation of the values from black () to white (). Fig. 2 shows a greyscale image of the Mandelbrot set.

Figure 2: Greyscale image of the Mandelbrot set



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