The phrase "a continuous picture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an image or representation that is unbroken or uninterrupted in its visual presentation.
Example: "The artist created a continuous picture that seamlessly blended the various elements of nature into one harmonious scene."
Alternatives: "an unbroken image" or "a seamless depiction".
With the other diarists, Harry provided a continuous picture of our changing country.
Underwater television provides the observer with a continuous picture of events that occur within the field of the submerged camera.
Despite a strong affinity for a continuous picture of nature, Planck found himself impelled to conclude that energy comes and goes in tiny, discrete chunks he called "quanta".
The color combination on each string has been carefully calculated so that the dozens of strands form a continuous picture, in this case a dark, hilly landscape.
Without it or the Thesaurus, Roget might today be remembered as a sort of scientific dabbler, developer of the "log-log scale" for the slide rule and discoverer of the retina's capacity for seeing a fast-moving "series of still images as a continuous picture".
Of course, record linkage does not yield a continuous picture of one's health situation but rather a series of shots of one's life.
Like a stop-action sequence, the series repeats and varies visual information, forcing the eye to jump from section to section while it reads the total picture as a continuous image.
When all this data is combined, it offers something close to a total, continuous picture of office life.
These blur into a continuous image, what the company calls "a motion picture outside of the train's windows".
Most important, senior military officials said, a constellation of sensors that is almost constantly aloft over Afghanistan -- from Boeing 707's carrying ground-target radars, to unmanned Predators and Global Hawks with long-range camera lenses, to reconnaissance satellites high above the earth -- have provided a sharper, more continuous picture of the battlefield than any commander has ever had.
However, this provides a rather subjective perspective and it is difficult to gain an overall and continuous picture of innovation.
