How do computers know how to make data into visual things on the monitor?

Question

i mean, how do they get information from a microchip, know what it is, and then put it on the monitor to look at? it kind of a weird question but im just wandering how they do it. thanks

Answer 1

A computer does not 'get information' or 'know what it is' or 'put it on the monitor'.
Similarly, a TV does not know that you want to watch ITV when you press the '3' button.
All electronic devices accept various input voltages, process them according to a set of instructions and output a set of voltages.
A more detailed description is the scope of a book, not a brief answer here.

Answer 2

Greetings!

Think of the processor as a series of streets. All the streets have gates. Think of your keyboard as a dispatcher of off and on people. Think of your power supply as to the car the use to drive into the processor. The language being binary on or off travels thorough the processor and at the end what is left gets on the bus and goes to the monitor which monitors them by saying ok, you go here etc.
sort of a wierd explanation but you get it.

Good Luck

Answer 3

A portion of the computer's memory or RAM is mapped onto the display. An image consists of an array of pixels, which are represented by bytes. Each address in the display memory corresponds to a particular location on the screen. The graphics adapter continually scans the display memory and draws the corresponding pixels according to the data at the corresponding addresses in the display memory. I could elaborate further, but that's it in a nutshell.

Answer 4

Inside of my computer monitor, I have a copy cat. I have to feed the cat and take care of him while he draws all of the images on my computer screen. I have to let him out once in a while to use the litter box.

Answer 5

Pixies in the computer run up the wires with photographs

Answer 6

They don't know actually. They only read lines of programming codes and interpreting them. To computers themselves, these are just a bunch of numbers to them.

Answer 7

It's called programming.

Answer 8

a photograph of me in computer code. 00000111110101011111111111111100000000000000000000000011111111111111111111010101000000000000000000001111111111111111111111010000000000000000111000000000000000000001111000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111110000000000111010101111111111000000000111111111111111110000111110001111110110111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111010101111111101010101010000011

Answer 9

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