Multimedia Graphics
Multimedia Graphics
Multimedia Graphics
Graphics
By John Sullivan
By John Sullivan
Graphics and Multimedia
Selection
Freehand
Dropper tool
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Other Images
Photo CD’s
Clip Art
Consists of collections of drawings, usually
available as black and white or 4 bit (16 color)
images.
The files are available in EPS, PIC, PICT, WMF and
BMP formats
Charts
Maps
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Image Acquisition: Scanning
Basics
Determine whether the image will be printed or
displayed on a monitor or projector
Select the Area to scan
Decide the scanning resolution of the resulting
digitized file
Decide the amount of light and contrast
desired for the resulting image
Determine the color cast you want to eliminate
during the scan
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Scanning Resolution and
Resizing
Factors to consider:
Size in bytes
Use of image
How much manipulation or editing
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Properties of Digitized images
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Image File Formats
GIF – 8 bits of color depth or 256 colors
Gif compresses drawings and cartoons that only have a few
colors much better than jpeg
JPEG – 24 bits of color depth (millions of colors) is
powerful but uses a lossy compression method.
JPEG introduces visible defects & sharp edges and lines that
blur, especially with small-size text.
PNG – Portable Network Graphics
Warning! Do not edit and re-edit files in jpeg
format. It recompresses it and the picture
degenerates.
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File Formats con’t
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Digital Acquisition
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Image Editing Basics:
Cropping
Output-Level Correction
During scanning process the images losses
resolution, contrast, and details in the shadows.
The levels dialog box enables you to correct the
output levels of RGB
Brightness and Contrast Adjustments
Filters
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3D Images
Primitives
Camera and Light Objects
Rotation tools
Resizing Tools
Surfaces
Extruding
Lathing
Rendering – Toy Story was rendered with on a
“farm” of 87 dual-processor and 30 quad processor
100MHz SPARCstation 20s. Took 46 days.
Panoramas
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Color
Light comes from an atom when an electron passes
from a higher to a lower energy level
Each atom produces uniquely specific colors
Known as quantum theory developed by physicist
Max Planck in the late 19th century.
Niels Bohr, another physicist, later showed that an
excited atom that has absorbed energy and whose
electrons have moved into higher orbits with throw
energy in the form of quanta, or photons, when it
reverts to a stable state.
That is where light comes from
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Color con’t
Color is the frequency of a light wave within the
narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum to which
the human eye responds.
The rainbow is an ascending frequency of the visible
light spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo, and violet.
Light that is infrared, or below the frequency of red
light, not perceivable by the human eye, can be
created and viewed by electronic diodes and sensors
Used for remote controls, wireless communications,
etc. (Vaughan, 2001, p. 265)
www.diacenter.org/km/index.html favorite color in the
world is blue
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Color
Hues – human can differentiate among
millions of colors, or hues, consisting of
combinations of RGB
Brightness or lightness is the percentage of
black or white mixed in a color
Saturation is the intensity of the color where
100% is pure and 0 is white, black, or gray.
Dithering
Opacity
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References
Tannenbaum, Robert, S., Theoretical
Foundations of Multimedia: New York:
Computer Science Press, 1998
Vaughan, Tay, Multimedia: Making it
Work, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001
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Graphics End
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