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| Asynchronous Transfer Mode; compression technology that can handle voice, data & video for WAN networks at 2,488Gbps. |
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| Frequency range from the lowest to the highest that can pass through a circuit. |
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| Images that are at a fixed resolution & become distorted when they are resized. |
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| Two-dimentional images that create the look of textures. |
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| Network of devices connected to a central line medium, known as a bus or backbone. |
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| Television cables that transmit data up to 10,000 MHz. |
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| Cathode-Ray Tube. Illuminates a phosphorescent viewing screen with a sweeping beam of electrons. |
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| Digital Subscriber Line. There are two basic types: ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) allows more data to be sent over existing copper telephone lines. SDSL (symmetric digital subscriber line) data transfers are lower-up to 3 Mbps only. Voice & data can travel over the same line @ the same time. |
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| Network of devices connected to a central line medium, known as the bus or backbone. |
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| Most popular protocol for LAN networks. Developed by Xerox, Digital Equipment, & Intel, who sought to define & create a useful communication standard. |
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| Fiber Distributed Data Interface; used on networks with fiber optics. Allows local area networks to be transmitted at rates of up to 100 Mbps. Typically the backbone for WANs. |
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| Screen by screen layout used for navigational purposes in the planning stages of a multimedia production. Primary sketch for the storyboard. |
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| System that uses glass fibers to carry light rays as digital data up to 800 THz at 20 Gbps. |
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| Allows pictures & text to be linked to other documents. |
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| Two-dimensional images placed on a model. |
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| Intergrated Services Digital Network; mixes voice, data & video services over WAN networks. |
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| Joint Photographic Experts Group is a popular compression scheme used to compress still images. Is "lossy" compression, meaning it takes data away from the original image. Can reduce file size up to 1/100th of the original size. |
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| Local area network. Uses hardware & protocols designed to communicate with computers that are typically in the same building or same general vicinity. |
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| Physical pipelines or wires that data travels on. Can be physical (as in the case of copper wire) or they can be energy (as in the case of microwave energy used in satellite connections). |
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| Provide reflective properties of a 3D model. Gives realistic appearance to the object on regards to lighting. Metal, wood, & stone are examples of the different material maps we can have. |
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| System that can transmit data from repeater to repeater up to 19.3 GHz at274.176 Mbps. |
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| Moving Picture Experts Group; used to compress motion pictures. Think-tank, which designs compression for audio & video. Several MPEG formats seen in use: MPEGI, MPEGII (MP3 or MPEGI layer 3) MPEG 4. |
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| Group of computer servers that are connected together, with paths between all of their respective clients. |
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| Object-Oriented Images (Vector Images) |
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| Use mathematical equations to draw images so no distortion occurs when they are resized. Also known as vector images. |
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| Short for picture element; the smallest independent element used on a monitor screen. |
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| A planar, closed, multisided object. Often gives objects a faceted look. |
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| A network that you can subscribe to (AOL) |
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| Common language & hardware that allows communication between network systems. |
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| Network that you are invited to dial up to (Internet). |
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| Network of devices connected to one another forming a ring. |
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| System made up of transponders & uplink transmitters that orbit the earth, that can transmit up to 6 MHz at 43 Mbps of digital data. |
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| Network devices connected to a central hub that acts like a traffic cop, directing the data transmitted through the network. |
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| Connection that provides 24 channels at 64 Kbps, totaling a rate of 1.536 Mbps w/ additional 8 Kbps used a framing information. Used with twisted pair & fiber-optics cables. Can be set to carry voice or data traffic. |
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| Connection that provides 672 channels at 64 Kbps. |
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| Pictures that are mapped onto objects to give them color & textures. |
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| Measurement of how much data can pass through a line medium in certain amount of time. |
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| Network that combines the characteristics of bus & star topology. |
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| Telephone wires that transmit data up to 1 MHz. |
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| Virtual Private Network; sends data encrypted so the public cannot intercept it. |
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| VR is a three dimensional environment that you can interact with. |
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| Wide area network. Typically use telephone lines & satellites as a medium of communication. |
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| Brought online in 1969 by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern U.S. |
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1 Defining the project.
2 Flowcharting & storyboarding.
3 Deciding upon the user interface.
The transition of an idea to reality requires good design & structure. |
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| TIF (Tagged Image File Format) |
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| Bitmapped images that is commonly used in the printing industry. Can black & white, color, or gray scale & have different resolutions. |
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| EPS (Enpasulated Post Script) |
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| Designed for printing purposes, & is an object-oriented file format. |
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| GIF (Graphic Interchage Format) |
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| Created by Compuserve for Internet use. Contain data compression for bitmaps, & use only 256 colors. Allows them to be smaller files, & naturally made for them ideal for surfing the Web. |
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| PNG (Portable Network Graphic) |
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| Created to allow for a free & improved version of the GIF format. Doesn't support animation like GIF but allows for lossless compression of images w/ 16 million colors. |
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| Used for audio compression & are commonly found on the Web. Sites such as Napster brought national attention to the compression format. |
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| Created by Apple computer as their format for computer based video. QuickTime was competition for AVI, & was used as the basis of MPEG 4. |
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| Created by Real Networks for streaming video via the Internet. |
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| Macromedia's Shockwave format is very popular with animated Web sites & presentations. It allows for audio, video, animation, & interactivity. |
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| Sound file format created by Microsoft & IBM. After support wsa introduced in Windows 95 OS for WAV files, it became the standard sound format for Windows computers. |
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| RT3D (Real-Time Three Dimentional) |
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| Refers to an environment that includes 3D models, & displays that at a rate of at least 15 frames per second. The minimum frame rate for fluid is 30 frames per second. Gives user a "new artificial world view." |
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| In order to place & move an object in three-dimesional space, we must incorporate (6DOF combination of coordinates). Expressed in dimensions of X, Y, Z (position) & Roll, Pitch, Yaw (orientation). X-pitch, Y-yah, Z-roll. |
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