Intermediate Computer Graphics & Multimedia
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What is the central idea behind "run-length encoding" (RLE) as a compression scheme?

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The correct answer is D) Replacing runs of repeated values with a single value plus a count

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Correct Answer

Replacing runs of repeated values with a single value plus a count

Explanation

RLE compresses data by replacing consecutive runs of identical values with a single value and a repeat count — particularly effective on images with large uniform regions.

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