GCO1821

Introduction to multimedia technology

(IT)

6 points + First and Second semester + Gippsland, Distance + 4 hours per week

Synopsis: Multimedia technology definitions. Survey of multimedia applications, skills, and training. Text: printed, scanned, and electronic text. Image bitmaps, vectored, clip arts, digitised pictures, natural light and colours, computerised colour, and colour palettes. Sound human hearing mechanism, waveform audio, MIDI, and digital audio. Video, human vision mechanism, difference between computer and television video, broadcast video standards, and digital video. Hypermedia. PC, multimedia, and virtual reality hardware. Elementary graphics and animation algorithms, Multimedia communications, Multimedia software tools and the Internet.

Assessment: Assignments 40% + Examination (3 hours) 60%