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An image (from Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
imago) is an artifact, usually two-dimensional (a picture), that has a similar appearance to some subject

Subject (philosophy)

In philosophy, a subject is a being which has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness or a relationship with another entity . A subject is an observer and an object is a thing observed....
—usually a physical object or a person

Person

The term person in common usage means an individual human being. In the fields of law, philosophy, medicine, and others, the term also has specialised context-specific meanings....
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Images may be two-dimension

Dimension

In mathematics, the dimension of a space is roughly defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify every point within it. For example: a point on the unit circle in the plane can be specified by two Cartesian coordinates but one can make do with a single coordinate , so the circle is 1-dimensional even though it exists in...
al, such as a photograph

Photograph

A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
, screen display, and as well as a three-dimensional, such as a statue

Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a Bust , and at least close to life-size, or larger....
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An image (from Latin

Latin

Subject (philosophy)

Person

Dimension

Photograph

Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to a Bust , and at least close to life-size, or larger....
. They may be captured by optical

Optics

Optics is the study of the behavior and properties of light including its optical phenomena with matter and its imaging by optical instruments....
devices—such as camera

Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura....
s, mirror

Mirror

A mirror is an object with one surface polished, which leads to reflection and another opaque. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface....
s, lenses

Lens (optics)

A lens is an optics device with perfect or approximate axial symmetry which transmittance and refraction light, converging or diverging the beam....
, telescope

Telescope

A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. The first known practically functioning telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century....
s, microscope

Microscope

A microscope is an Laboratory equipment for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy....
s, etc. and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye

Eye

Eyes are Organ that detect light, and send signals along the optic nerve to the visual system and other areas of the brain. Complex optical systems with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different forms, and 96% of animal species possess a complex optical system....
or water surfaces. The word image is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map

Map

A map is a visual representation of an area?a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as Object , regions, and topic-comment....
, a graph

Graph (data structure)

In computer science, a graph is a kind of data structure, specifically an abstract data type , that consists of a Set of nodes and a set of edges that establish relationships between the nodes....
, a pie chart

Pie chart

A pie chart is a circle chart divided into Circular sectors, illustrating relative magnitude or frequencies. In a pie chart, the arc length of each sector , is proportionality to the quantity it represents....
, or an abstract painting

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world....
. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually, such as by drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
, painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, carving

Carving

Carving can mean*Bone carving*Chip carving*EQ carving, an application of equalization in audio mixing*Gourd art*Ice sculpture*Ivory carving...
, rendered automatically by printing

Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
or computer graphics

Computer graphics

Computer graphics are graphics created by computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer....
technology, or developed

Image development (visual arts)

Image development is the process of development for any use. It is often both a synonym for a specific process and a label for a unique combination of processes....
by a combination of methods, especially in a pseudo-photograph

Pseudo-photograph

A pseudo-photograph is an produced manually which is indistinguishable from a real photograph produced using a camera.Although the term pseudo-photograph can be applied regardless of what it depicts, in law its meaning is especially relevant regarding child pornography....
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A volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. This may be a reflection of an object by a mirror, a projection

Projection

Projection can be any of:* The display of an image by devices such as:**Movie projector**Video projector**Overhead projector**Slide projector...
of a camera obscura

Camera obscura

The camera obscura is an optical device used, for example, in drawing or for entertainment. It is one of the inventions leading to photography....
, or a scene displayed on a cathode ray tube

Cathode ray tube

The cathode ray tube is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun and a fluorescent screen, with internal or external means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam, used to create images in the form of light emitted from the fluorescent screen....
. A fixed image, also called a hard copy

Hard copy

In information handling, a hard copy is a permanent reproduction, or copy in the form of a physical object, of any media suitable for direct use by a person , of displayed or transmitted data....
, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as paper

Paper

Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
or textile

Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by Spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands known as yarn....
by photography

Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
or digital processes.

A mental image

Mental image

A mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but that occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses ; however, there are, not infrequently, episodes, particularly on falling asleep and waking up , when the...
exists in an individual's mind: something one remembers or imagines. The subject of an image need not be real; it may be an abstract concept, such as a graph

Graph theory

In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graph : mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection....
, function, or "imaginary" entity. For example, Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
claimed to have dreamt purely in aural-images of dialogues. The development of synthetic acoustic technologies and the creation of sound art

Sound art

Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
have led to a consideration of the possibilities of a sound-image made up of irreducible phonic substance beyond linguistic or musicological analysis.

Still image

A still image is a single static image, as distinguished from a moving image (see below). This phrase is used in photography

Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
, visual media

Electronic media

Electronic media are media that utilize electronics or electromechanical energy for the end user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which are most often Desktop publishing, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end user in the printed form....
and the computer industry

Computer industry

Computer industry is a collective term used to describe the whole range of businesses involved in developing computer software, designing computer hardware and computer networking infrastructures, the manufacture of computer components and the provision of information technology services....
to emphasize that one is not talking about movies, or in very precise or pedantic technical writing such as a standard

Standardization

Standardization is the process of developing and agreeing upon Standard . A standard is a document that establishes uniform engineering or technical specifications, criteria, methods, processes, or practices....
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A film still is a photograph taken on the set of a movie or television program during production, used for promotional purposes.

Moving image

A moving image is typically a movie (film

Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
), or video

Video

Video is the technology of electronics Videography, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing Scene in motion....
, including digital video

Digital video

Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analog signal video signal.The terms camera, video camera, and camcorder are used interchangeably in this article....
. It could also be an animated display such as a zoetrope

Zoetrope

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides....
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Still image

Moving image

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