Indexed colorIn computing, indexed color is a technique to manage s' colors in a limited fashion, in order to save computer memory and file storage, while speeding up display refresh and file transfers. It is a form of vector quantization compression. When an image is encoded in this way, color information is not directly carried by the image pixel data, but is stored in a separate piece of data called a color lookup table (CLUT) or palette: an array of color specifications. Every element in the array represents a color, indexed by its position within the array.
Propriété colligativevignette|350px|Diagramme de phases d'un solvant pur (courbes pleines) et du même solvant en présence d'un soluté (pointillés). Les propriétés colligatives se traduisent par un déplacement des courbes d'équilibre solide-liquide et gaz-liquide. En chimie physique, une propriété colligative d'une solution chimique correspond à la différence entre une propriété donnée d'un solvant pur liquide et la même propriété de ce solvant en présence d'un soluté.
Niveau d'organisation (biologie)En biologie, les niveaux d'organisation du vivant forment une hiérarchie des structures et des systèmes biologiques complexes qui définissent la vie en utilisant une approche réductionniste. La hiérarchie traditionnelle, détaillée ci-dessous, s'étend des atomes aux biosphères. Chaque niveau de la hiérarchie représente une augmentation de la complexité organisationnelle, chaque « objet » étant principalement composé de l'unité de base du niveau précédent.
Color quantizationIn computer graphics, color quantization or color image quantization is applied to color spaces; it is a process that reduces the number of distinct colors used in an , usually with the intention that the new image should be as visually similar as possible to the original image. Computer algorithms to perform color quantization on bitmaps have been studied since the 1970s. Color quantization is critical for displaying images with many colors on devices that can only display a limited number of colors, usually due to memory limitations, and enables efficient compression of certain types of images.
StructureA structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships), a network featuring many-to-many links, or a lattice featuring connections between components that are neighbors in space.
