The phrase "a continuous picture of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an ongoing or uninterrupted representation or depiction of something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The documentary provides a continuous picture of the struggles faced by the community over the years."
Alternatives: "an ongoing depiction of" or "a constant representation of".
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".
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.
2, 3 Therefore, we analyzed the CDF of spectral power, which provides a continuous picture of the spectral power changes from 0 to 100 Hz.
Digitized, overlapping pictures (magnification 100×) of semithin sciatic nerve cross sections were fused to a continuous picture of a whole sciatic-nerve cross-section by using Photoshop CS (Adobe systems, San Jose, CA).
When all this data is combined, it offers something close to a total, continuous picture of office life.
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.
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.
Using a satellite orbiting far above the surface, it's hard to get an up-close, continuous picture of the transient phenomena that cause these streaks.
