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| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Media | p. 4 |
| Multimedia | p. 7 |
| Digital Multimedia in Perspective | p. 11 |
| Exercises | p. 15 |
| Fundamentals | p. 17 |
| Digital Data | p. 18 |
| Digital Representation of Media | p. 33 |
| Exercises | p. 55 |
| Vector Graphics | p. 59 |
| Fundamentals | p. 61 | ... MORE
| Vector Objects | p. 66 |
| Transformations | p. 78 |
| 3-D Graphics | p. 83 |
| Exercises | p. 98 |
| Bitmapped Images | p. 101 |
| Resolution | p. 102 |
| Image Compression | p. 113 |
| File Formats | p. 124 |
| Image Manipulation | p. 129 |
| Exercises | p. 151 |
| Colour | p. 155 |
| Colour and Science | p. 157 |
| RGB Colour | p. 158 |
| Other Colour Models | p. 170 |
| Channels and Colour Correction | p. 183 |
| Consistent Colour | p. 188 |
| Exercises | p. 193 |
| Video | p. 197 |
| Video Standards | p. 201 |
| Video Compression | p. 210 |
| Editing and Post-Production | p. 226 |
| Delivery | p. 235 |
| Exercises | p. 244 |
| Animation | p. 247 |
| Image Sequences | p. 251 |
| Interpolation | p. 259 |
| Vector Animation in Flash | p. 266 |
| Motion Graphics | p. 273 |
| Delivering Animation | p. 277 |
| Exercises | p. 284 |
| Sound | p. 287 |
| The Nature of Sound | p. 288 |
| Digitizing Sound | p. 294 |
| Processing Sound | p. 299 |
| Compression | p. 309 |
| MIDI | p. 315 |
| Exercises | p. 322 |
| Text and Typography | p. 325 |
| Character Sets | p. 326 |
| Fonts | p. 336 |
| Layout and Formatting | p. 353 |
| Exercises | p. 363 |
| Hypermedia | p. 367 |
| Text Layout Using XHTML and CSS | p. 369 |
| Links | p. 397 |
| The Web and Hypermedia | p. 407 |
| Exercises | p. 420 |
| Visual Design | p. 423 |
| Visual Communication | p. 426 |
| Gestalt Principles | p. 433 |
| Colour and Tone | p. 442 |
| Layout Grids | p. 449 |
| Exercises | p. 456 |
| Interactivity | p. 459 |
| Interacting With Multimedia | p. 461 |
| Interacting Through Multimedia | p. 477 |
| Exercises | p. 491 |
| Accessibility | p. 495 |
| Background | p. 496 |
| Textual Alternatives | p. 507 |
| Accessible Multimedia Content | p. 512 |
| Interactivity | p. 519 |
| Exercises | p. 525 |
| Scripting | p. 529 |
| Objects and Events | p. 530 |
| ECMAScript | p. 539 |
| JavaScript and the DOM | p. 554 |
| ActionScript | p. 568 |
| Exercises | p. 582 |
| XML and Multimedia | p. 585 |
| Syntax and DTDs | p. 587 |
| Namespaces | p. 598 |
| SVG | p. 605 |
| Exercises | p. 621 |
| Multimedia and Networks | p. 625 |
| Networking Fundamentals | p. 626 |
| Delivering Multimedia | p. 639 |
| Distributing Media Files | p. 652 |
| Server-Side Computation | p. 660 |
| Exercises | p. 669 |
| Appendix: Standards and Multimedia | p. 673 |
| Glossary | p. 677 |
| Index | p. 711 |
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