Administration

Finish survey of architecture design

Dynamic Technologies

Authoring

Design: Form and Content

Digitization: Introduction

Worksheet 3 due next week

Homework - Due Wednesday!

Web Topic Paper due in two weeks

Use the small group

Share your work

Vatican site

http://www.vatican.va/

webmonkey

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

How is the design matched to the content?

Multimedia Definition

Computer-based = digital

Multiple media = media

All media are manipulated in digital form

What does that mean?

What do we lose?

What do we gain?

Media tied to traditional forms

Think of Cinema, TV and Video

Time-independent media

Text and Images

Time-dependent media

Video, Audio, Animation

On the computer there is only one form

Will there be only one media?

Binary Digital

Sequences of 1s and 0s

Easy to build reliable physical systems

Memory and Storage (Magnetic and Optical Media)

From computer's POV all information is digital

Data and programs are sequences

Data can be treated as program and vice versa

For data to be useful there has to be a context (software)

Computer as input, processing and output

Digitization is input

Text (Strings of Alphanumeric Characters)

Images (Drawings, Pictures)

Sound (Midi Sequences, Digitized Audio)

Moving Pictures (Video, Animations)

3-D Spaces or Objects (Virtual Reality)

Procedures and Processes

What cannot be digitized?

Analog to Digital

Continuous to Multi-level

Sampling and Quantization