Now it's Digital, We can Do Anything?

Digital processing is available to all. From the high street desktop to the more powerful deskside workstation, computers are finding applications in all walks of life. Because most physical and abstract parameters (temperatures, size, lines, text) can be described numerically, computers can be applied to almost any task. Where data and processing requirements are modest i.e. text, slowly changing experimental information, 3D rendering, desktop and workstation provide unchallengable cost effective solutions. Where data represents real world images with its variety of hues, textures and contrast, the resulting quantity of data can smother all but the most powerful system. At this point the often heard exception of “now it's digital, we can do anything” loses its credibility.

Published

1994-07

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001132

ISBN

978-1-61482-946-1