The digital computer has the potential to combine diverse kinds of media, such as text, graphics, video, sound, and others. Such innovative combinations are generally referred to as multimedia, but the storage and processing demands have held back widespread development.
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 Layout
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