Digital Multimedia, 3rd Edition

by: Nigel Chapman (Edinburgh, Scotland); Jenny Chapman (Edinburgh, Scotland)

ISBN 13:
9780470512166
ISBN 10:
0470512164
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/01/2009
Publisher: Wiley

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Summary

Digital photography and video, MP3 players, smart phones and the World Wide Web have become essential in today's world. The digital representation of images, video, animation, sound and text has become integrated in every part of our lives and their combination into multimedia is routine.

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
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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Digital Multimedia, 3rd Edition

9780470512166

0470512164

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