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A Grid of Numbers

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A digital image reaches a machine as a grid of numbers — one brightness per cell, nothing else — and everything called seeing is built from arithmetic on the grid.

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A modest photograph is a million cells, three numbers each for color: one case described by millions of features.

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Between the grid and the label sits arithmetic — keep that sentence in view all block.