Frame buffer

Hey, kiddo! Have you ever wondered how movies, video games or pictures appear on your computer or TV screen? Well, frame buffer is like a special invisible notebook that helps your computer or TV show pictures and videos.

Let's say you drew a beautiful picture on a piece of paper with colored pencils. This is like your computer's graphics card or GPU drawing a picture or game on your computer's screen. But how does the computer show it to you? This is where the frame buffer comes in.

Think of the frame buffer as a notebook with many pages. Every time something is drawn on the computer screen, the computer saves all the colors and placements of the pixels (tiny colored dots that make up a picture) on one of the pages of the notebook. This page is called a frame or image. Your computer then quickly flips through all the pages one-by-one, displaying each image and making it look like an animation or a moving picture.

When you play games or watch videos, the frame buffer quickly saves and processes new images on each page, turning all the pages so fast that it creates the illusion of motion that you see on your screen.

So, the frame buffer is like a secret book that helps your computer or TV show pictures and videos in motion, making everything appear seamless and beautiful!