Mathematica Tutorial: Visualization And Graphics - Wolfram Research

Visualization and Graphics 113
Importing Graphics and Sounds
Mathematica allows you not only to export graphics and sounds, but also to import them. With
Import you can read graphics and sounds in a wide variety of formats, and bring them into
Mathematica as Mathematica expressions.
Import@"name.ext"D
Import@" file"," format"D
ImportString@"string"," format"D
import graphics from the file name.ext in a format deduced
from the file name
import graphics in the specified format
import graphics from a string
Importing graphics and sounds.
In[1]:=
This imports an image stored in JPEG format.
g = Import@"ExampleDataêocelot.jpg"D
Out[1]=
In[2]:=
Out[2]=
This shows an array of four copies of the image.
GraphicsGrid@88g, g