pls explain about resolution so that a common man can understand?

Question

1024X768, 800X600 etc

Answer 1

Imagine your computer screen being made up of a bunch of squares dots. If your resolution is set to 800x600, you have 800 dots wide by 600 dots tall. To find the number of dots it takes to make the picture on your computer screen, take 800 X 600, which is 480,000 dots. If your resolution is set to 1024x768. Your total dots that make up your picture is 1024 X 768, which equals 786,432 dots. The bottom-line is, the more dots to make up your picture - the better, sharper, and clearer your picture is. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

In a nut shell: how far away you are seeing something.

On a computer 800x600 will see things closer, but give you less room. On a bigger monitor, 1024 and above work better because things still appear reasonably large, but you are able to see more at once.

The higher the resolution, the better things will look on things like projectors, monitors and televisions. It's due (respectively) to cramming more pixel into an area. This makes things look more realistic and vivid.

Answer 3

A digital image such as the one you see on your computer monitor is made up of tiny dots known as pixels. The resolution specifies how many horizontal and vertical pixels will be displayed. For example, a resolution of 1024x768 will be 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels tall.

Color depth is also another component of resolution. This is set in your "display properties" and specifies how many different color possibilities there are for each individual pixel. For example 256 colors means that there are 256 different colors that each individual pixel can support. Most modern video cards support hundreds of thousands of colors per pixel.

Answer 4

The resolution refers to the number of pixels displayed horizontally and vertically.

When it is stated as 1024 x 768, it means that there are 1024 columns and 768 rows. When multiplied, 786432 pixels are represented.

Similarly, 800 x 600 is 800 columns and 600 rows. When multiplied, 480000 pixels are represented.

Answer 5

The picture you look at is made of of loads of dots.

(Each dot is a "picture element" == PIXEL !!)

The resolution is the number of dots along the screen times the number of dots up the screen.

If you have more dots then things look nicer. If you have lower dots then things, particularly curved things, look rubbish.

Back in the day of 640x200 resolution, you could see the pixels clearly on curved edges (try building a circle from lego blocks), but now you can almost ignore the individual elements and look at the whole

Answer 6

Refers to the sharpness and clarity of an image. The term is most often used to describe monitors, printers, and bit-mapped graphic images. In the case of dot-matrix and laser printers, the resolution indicates the number of dots per inch. For example, a 300-dpi (dots per inch) printer is one that is capable of printing 300 distinct dots in a line 1 inch long. This means it can print 90,000 dots per square inch.
For graphics monitors, the screen resolution signifies the number of dots (pixels) on the entire screen. For example, a 640-by-480 pixel screen is capable of displaying 640 distinct dots on each of 480 lines, or about 300,000 pixels. This translates into different dpi measurements depending on the size of the screen. For example, a 15-inch VGA monitor (640x480) displays about 50 dots per inch.

Printers, monitors, scanners, and other I/O devices are often classified as high resolution, medium resolution, or low resolution. The actual resolution ranges for each of these grades is constantly shifting as the technology improves.