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- bitmap An image composed of binary pixels (black & white)
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- grayscale
- An image composed of gray levels (using 2 to 8 bits, usually
- 8 bits). May be mapped or unmapped.
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- RGB, 24bit
- An image which contains 3 8bit values of red, green, and
- blue for each pixel. They are by definition unmapped.
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- mapped image, mapped color image
- A mapped image contains a single plane of values, 1 to 8 bits
- (usually 8, although 4-7 are also found), and a colormap
- which has three vectors of color values for red, green and
- blue.
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- unmapped image
- Either 8 bit grayscale or 24bit (RGB) color.
- The unmap
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