COMPSCI 1033 - Final Exam Terms
Questions and Answers.
multimedia (wikipedia) - Answer multimedia is media and content that uses a combination
of different forms of content
multimedia (merriam-webster) - Answer using, involving, or encompassing several media
multimedia (cambridge dictionary) - Answer using a combination of still and moving
pictures, music, sound and words especially in computers or entertainment
multimedia application - Answer an application that can be used to present text, sound,
video, images and animation
CRAP - Contrast - Answer avoid making 2 elements just similar, either make them the same
(same font, etc) or make them VERY different
CRAP - Repetition - Answer repeat some aspect of the design throughout the entire design
(i.e. bold font, thick rule, bullet, colours, font type)
CRAP - Alignment - Answer items are aligned - creates stronger cohesive unit
CRAP - Proximity - Answer group related items together, physically grouping implies a
relationship
monitor - Answer a rectangular area (the screen) broken down into very small pieces or dots
where each piece / dot can take on a particular colour
font type - Answer characters that have a common design are grouped into families called
Font Types
kerning - Answer adjusting the distance between pairs of letters
tracking - Answer adjusting the distance between ALL the letters (measured in ems)
leading - Answer amount of vertical space between lines of text
, tip - Answer if rightmost digit is odd, you should end up with odd number. If rightmost digit
is even, you should end up with an even number.
sampling - Answer how often do I take a sample (measurement) to represent parts of the
"thing" (how many parts will I break the think up into)
quantizing - Answer how many discrete values will I use to represent the parts the "thing"
DPI (dots per inch) - Answer measurement for samples on scanners / printers
PPI (pixels per inch) - Answer measurement for samples on a monitor
pixel - Answer an image represented by a grid (array, matrix) of squared Picture Elements
megapixels - Answer how many millions of pixels you can capture in a photograph on your
digital camera (how many "samples" it will break the image into)
screen resolution - Answer number of pixels across by the number of pixels down that a
screen is currently displaying
indexed colour - Answer an index that maps to a group of colours we plan to use
lossless compression - Answer the compression of original bits and bytes into less bits and
bytes without losing any of the original information about the picture
lossy compression - Answer the compression that causes some of the original information to
be lost
web server - Answer computer that runs software which holds the webpages and serves up
(delivers) webpage to the client
client - Answer the computer that is requesting to see / visit the web page
ASCII code - Answer each letter is represented by 8 bits (1 byte)
Huffman Coding - Answer rather than ASCII (each letter is 8 bits or 1 byte) use the least
number of bits for common letters and more bits for less common letters
Questions and Answers.
multimedia (wikipedia) - Answer multimedia is media and content that uses a combination
of different forms of content
multimedia (merriam-webster) - Answer using, involving, or encompassing several media
multimedia (cambridge dictionary) - Answer using a combination of still and moving
pictures, music, sound and words especially in computers or entertainment
multimedia application - Answer an application that can be used to present text, sound,
video, images and animation
CRAP - Contrast - Answer avoid making 2 elements just similar, either make them the same
(same font, etc) or make them VERY different
CRAP - Repetition - Answer repeat some aspect of the design throughout the entire design
(i.e. bold font, thick rule, bullet, colours, font type)
CRAP - Alignment - Answer items are aligned - creates stronger cohesive unit
CRAP - Proximity - Answer group related items together, physically grouping implies a
relationship
monitor - Answer a rectangular area (the screen) broken down into very small pieces or dots
where each piece / dot can take on a particular colour
font type - Answer characters that have a common design are grouped into families called
Font Types
kerning - Answer adjusting the distance between pairs of letters
tracking - Answer adjusting the distance between ALL the letters (measured in ems)
leading - Answer amount of vertical space between lines of text
, tip - Answer if rightmost digit is odd, you should end up with odd number. If rightmost digit
is even, you should end up with an even number.
sampling - Answer how often do I take a sample (measurement) to represent parts of the
"thing" (how many parts will I break the think up into)
quantizing - Answer how many discrete values will I use to represent the parts the "thing"
DPI (dots per inch) - Answer measurement for samples on scanners / printers
PPI (pixels per inch) - Answer measurement for samples on a monitor
pixel - Answer an image represented by a grid (array, matrix) of squared Picture Elements
megapixels - Answer how many millions of pixels you can capture in a photograph on your
digital camera (how many "samples" it will break the image into)
screen resolution - Answer number of pixels across by the number of pixels down that a
screen is currently displaying
indexed colour - Answer an index that maps to a group of colours we plan to use
lossless compression - Answer the compression of original bits and bytes into less bits and
bytes without losing any of the original information about the picture
lossy compression - Answer the compression that causes some of the original information to
be lost
web server - Answer computer that runs software which holds the webpages and serves up
(delivers) webpage to the client
client - Answer the computer that is requesting to see / visit the web page
ASCII code - Answer each letter is represented by 8 bits (1 byte)
Huffman Coding - Answer rather than ASCII (each letter is 8 bits or 1 byte) use the least
number of bits for common letters and more bits for less common letters
