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From: rogerh@arizona.edu (Roger Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: the word "bitmap"
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Date: 16 Jan 89 21:27:35 GMT
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In article <8901111331.AA25073@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu> elf@dgp.toronto.edu (Eugene Fiume) writes:
>...
>This is entirely incorrect.  It is not hard to define a bitmap
>precisely as a function (taking the integers to booleans).  
>...
Eugene modestly neglects to mention a reference:

	"A Mathematical Semantics and Theory of Raster Graphics",
	Eugene L. Fiume, Ph.D. dissertation,
	University of Toronto, May 1986.
	Available as U. of T. Computer Systems Research Institute
	Tech. Report CSRI-185.

Maybe he didn't want to have to send out copies...