Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics.
This is a vector graphic.
A vector graphic is made up of points in space called vectors. The advantage of vector graphics, in comparison to bitmaps, is that it can be rescaled without lowering the quality. Another advantage is that Vector graphics take up less memory space than bitmaps. Many modern graphics programs can create vector images. Good examples would be Photoshop and Macromedia Flash.
Vectorising an image is a good way to take uneccesary detail from an image.
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