Introduction to Multimedia Systems

Offers an introduction to the broad field of multimedia. This book includes topics such as the principles of 'multiple' and 'media,' including sound, two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics, animation, and text. It provides a survey of multimedia capabilities.

List of contents

Prelude to Multimedia
1. Overview of Multimedia Systems
Prelude to Audio
2. The Nature of Sound
3. Introduction to Digital Audio
4. Audio Editing
5. Music and Speech
An Interlude: Free for All
6. Audio: From CD to the Web
7. The WAV File Format
Prelude to Graphics
8. The Paint Shop Pro Interface
9. Colors
An Interlude: The Properties of Light
10. File Formats and Web Graphics
11. Layers and Filters
An Interlude: Vision
12. Process of Animation
13. Video
An Interlude: The Term Dimension
14. 3-D Graphics
15. Text in Multimedia and the Internet
An Interlude: Meaning in Binary Strings
16. Art and Design
17. Cognitive User Interfaces
An Interlude: Development of Cognitive Systems
18. Authoring Multimedia in Visual Basic
Index

Product details

• Authors: Gaurav Bhatnager, Sugata Mitra
• Assisted by: Gaurav Bhatnagar (Editor), Shikha Mehta (Editor), Sugata Mitra (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2001
• EAN: 9780125004527
• ISBN: 978-0-12-500452-7
• No. of pages: 207
• Series: Communications, Networking and Multimedia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Multimedia