Ima chap 8
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- What is aliasing?
- The pixelated staircase on the edge of an image when it is zoomed in.
- What is Anti-Aliasing?
- Made to smooth out the edge of BMP images.
- Describe LAN?
- Computers are networked together in a close area like a building.
- What does LAN stand for?
- Local Area Network
- Describe WAN?
- (Wide Area Network) Networks spread over large distance.
- WHen was the World Wide Web introduced?
- 1991
- What did Samuel Morse do?
- He invented the morse code on the telegraph.
- The Samarians developed Cuniform, what was it?
- Early Written Word
- Johannes Gutenburg invented what?
- The printing press in the 15th century
- The telephone was invented by who?
- Alexander Graham Bell
- What was the arpanet?
- The first idea for internet which included 4 universities
- Email who introduced in?
- 1971
- The killer application of the 90's
- Mosaic Browser later became Netscape
- What is multimedia?
- text, sound, and graphics combined in 1 medium
- What does interactivity mean?
- User control tempo and outcome for a multimedia experience.
- What are the 3 steps of design?
- defining the project, flowcharts and storyboards, creating a user interface
- WAV files and AIFF files are what type of files?
- uncompressed
- Where is streaming audio and video used at?
- The web
- MPEG 2 is used for?
- High quality in video DVD's
- What are MP3's
- Compressed Audio
- What are MPEG 4 used for?
- Interactive multimedia
- This is the software that allows us to synchronize elements without knowing code!
- Authoring Software
- What is "One Off"?
- The first test copy of a cd or dvd
- JPEG's are compressed what?
- Bitmaps
- What is a Codec?
- A term for software that codes and decodes signals.
- This was characters carved in wood and inked.
- Plate
- Each letter was individually created, molded in clay and then cast in metal.
- Movable type
- The method of a raised surface is inked and pressed against paper.
- Letterpress
- What is the proper name for stone writing?
- Lithography
- The two types of automated typsetting process.
- Linotype & Monotype
- There where 23,000 miles of telegraph by this year?
- 1854
- New Utopia by Sir Bacon predicted what?
- The telephone
- What did Bell do at the Cnetennial Exhibition in Philadelphia?
- Revealed the telephone.
- This is a channel or pipelines through which data travels.
- the Line Medium
- The measurment for how much data can pass through a line medium at a certain time is the?
- Throughput
- This is the highest and lowest frequency that can be passed through a circuit
- bandwidth
- These are multiple wires twisted together into one cable used for sending and receiving a path of electrical signals
- The twisted pair
- This "line medium" could support either tv or telephone
- copper coaxial cable
- The "line medium" that was uplinked and amplified in orbit was the
- satellite
- Once used in WW2, these can now handle voice, data, and analog or digital video
- microwave
- This uses light rays to transmit data
- Fiber Optics
- This type of network is exists between internal branches of a company
- private network
- Networks that people can subscribe to include:
- AOL
- With this network, you can work at home and still access your office work ( kinda like propeller)
- VPN
- What does VPN stand for?
- Virtual Private Network
- What year did ARPANET go international?
- 1973
- What is the data transmission standards for networks?
- TCP/IP
- This is the type of address assigned to a computer in 32 bit seperated by periods
- IP Address
- What was the first menu-driven interface for searching and retrieving documents? made in 1991
- GOPHER System
- A click on this text will propel the use to successive locations
- Hypertext
- What are the 4 types of topologies used on LAN's
- Bus (backbone), Tree(bus and star), Ring(connected) and Star(connected to central hub).
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Created by Xerox, this is a useful communication standard in
LAN. - Ethernet
- There are 3 types of Ethernet LAN's
- 10Mps,100Mps, and 1GPS
- The standard ethernet cabling is known as the
- CAT5-RJ45 Jack
- WLAN uses what to send data from a computer to a router.
- Radio Waves
- What does WLAN stand for
- Wireless Local Area Network
- What does ISDN stand for?
- Integrated Service digital network
- What is the ISDN used for?
- Multiple channels of data over WAN
- A 24 channels, each has 64kbs
- T1
- Has 672 channels, equivalent to 28 T1 lines
- T3
- The most expensive Wan protocal past the T3 is the
- OC Optical Carrier
- Dsl comes in 2 basic types:
- SDSL and ADSL
- Which dsl protocol is the lesser? ADSL or SDSL?
- SDSL
- This is a structure saved somewhere in the computer where everything is properly labeled and can be quickly found if needed.
- Asset Management
- This is the smallest element used throughout a monitor screen, each with its seperately defines color
- Pixel
- These raster images use 1 bit of computer memory for each pixel in the image.
- BMP
- These vector images can be manipulated.
- object oriented images
- This is the quality of bits dedicated to storing info for a single pixel
- Bit depth
- The bumps on the bottom of a cd are called?
- Lands
- What is a REDBOOK?
- CD-DA (compact Disk / Digital Audio)
- What is YELLOWBOOK?
- CD-ROMS used in systems not stand alone
- What is BLUEBOOK?
- CD-Enhanced Cds
- What is GREENBOOK?
- CD-I (Interactive) used for games and educational purposes
- What is ORANGEBOOK?
- CD-R and CR-RW
- White is WHITEBOOK?
- VCD Video CD example KAraoke
- What is SCARLETBOOK?
- The Super Audio CD High Res Music
- These can carry frequencies up to 10,000MHZ and can achieve transmissions at rates up to 10mbps.
- Coaxial Cables
- This is the system that several types of signals can be transmitted. ranging from 6mhz bandwidth for tv
- Satellite
- Derived from radar technology, these systems carry speech data and video reansmissions
- microwave
- This was used by Samuel Morse to create the Morse Code
- The Telegraph
- What is a network?
- A connection between servers and clients
- A multisided figure with 3 or more sides
- Polygon
- The DVD Forun consist of ?
- Industry manufacturers and software companies
- Encapsulating data in packets is done by
- ethernet
- The printing industry standard
- TIFF
- An object oriented image file format
- EPS
- Free Gif images
- PNG
- This is a compressed audio format widely used on the internet
- MP3
- The standard sound file for microsoft
- WAV
- This phone line can support telephone and internet services on the same line
- ISDN
- The look of an image onto another
- Texture
- Allowing a user to jump from one place to another on a platform
- Hypermedia
- A process where the image is cut into the surface
- Intagilo
- This channel allows you to add effects to an image
- Alpha Channel
- The 2-D illusion of depth (from the texture maps)
- Bump map
- The color and the look (from the texture maps)
- image map
- The reflection properties ( from the texture maps)
- Material Map
- Converts 3d models to 2d image (from the texture maps)
- rendering