in another thread( One Bit Image) Jak was asking for a thread explaining Flash and Vector, so here's my attempt to explain:
Flash is a vector program. in Vector, the image information is saved as coordinates and the color information inside them, which makes the file sizes much smaller then Bitmap or anything pixel based (BMP, Jpeg, Tiff etc.) Also, this makes it so that your image is scaleable without messing up the image, like what happens if you try to enlarge a bitmap. In Flash you can import bitmaps into vector and then scale them easily. Flash's main use though, is for making video clips, and since vector is so much smaller for file sizes than AVI of anything like that (since they are saved in pixels), the images can be put on the web and are load very quickly (unless you've used lots of pixel images and sounds in it, which is kind of defeating the whole point of using something like Flash). anyway, hope that helps you Jak, and anybody else out there who hasn't heard much about Flash and Vector (and to any Vector experts out there - please correct me if I just told everybody completely wrong info or anything)
-David
Flash is a vector program. in Vector, the image information is saved as coordinates and the color information inside them, which makes the file sizes much smaller then Bitmap or anything pixel based (BMP, Jpeg, Tiff etc.) Also, this makes it so that your image is scaleable without messing up the image, like what happens if you try to enlarge a bitmap. In Flash you can import bitmaps into vector and then scale them easily. Flash's main use though, is for making video clips, and since vector is so much smaller for file sizes than AVI of anything like that (since they are saved in pixels), the images can be put on the web and are load very quickly (unless you've used lots of pixel images and sounds in it, which is kind of defeating the whole point of using something like Flash). anyway, hope that helps you Jak, and anybody else out there who hasn't heard much about Flash and Vector (and to any Vector experts out there - please correct me if I just told everybody completely wrong info or anything)
-David

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