• Author:
  • Chapman, Nigel
  • Chapman, Jenny
• Subject:
  Internet Guides & Online Services
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons (UK)
• Published:
  06/02/2004
• Price:
  $80.99
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Designed as the foundation text in multimedia, this book covers basic principles of each media type - text, graphics, audio, animation and video - describing their digitization and progressing onto issues that arise when media are combined; interaction provided by scripting and multimedia distributed over networks - principally the web.
This edition completely updates content to address the XHTML standard and to add appropriate weight to XML content. There will be a web/Flash emphasis and proper coverage of MPEG4 and DVD in line with current technology trends.
* New edition of a best-selling resource - now in FULL COLOUR throughout
* Covers the basic principles of each media type-- text, graphics, audio, animation, and video
* Updated content addresses the XHTML standard and adds appropriate weight to XML coverage
* Includes a Web/Flash emphasis and thorough coverage of MPEG4 and DVD in line with current technology trends

Nigel Chapman is a writer and technical consultant, for MacAvon Media Productions, Highlands, Scotland.

Jenny Chapman is an artist-filmmaker, at the Edinburgh College of Art and MacAvon Media Productions, Highlands, Scotland.

Preface.

Prologue.

1. Introduction.

2. Enabling Technologies.

3. Introduction to Computer Graphics.

4. Vector Graphics.

5. Bitmapped Images.

6. Colour.

7. Video.

8. Animation.

9. Sound.

10. Characters and Fonts.

11. Text and Hypertext.

12. Hypertext and Hypermedia.

13. Design Principles.

14. XML and Multimedia.

15. SMIL and SVG.

16. Scripting and Interactivity.

17. Multimedia and Networks.

Projects.

Bibliography.

Glossary.

Index.