Examples for Chapter 2

Chapters from Digital Multimedia, 3rd Edition in PDF format can now be bought for download from the MacAvon Media Downloads Store or included in MacAvon Media Course Bundles.

• Acharacle Time

  p. 21, Analogue and Digital Clocks

  The desktop clock applications illustrated in the book are rather crude and unattractive. We got these much nicer Flash ones from localtime.info. They work, too, illustrating analogue vs digital better than the book's static screenshots.

• p. 28, Moiré Patterns

  This is the original Illustrator file of Figure 2.10. If you open it you will be able to see that it is made up entirely of straight lines and the patterns are an artefact.

  Download Illustrator file DMM3e-2-10.ai [1.0MB]

• p. 29, Posterization

  This is a 24-bit colour version of the photograph shown in Figure 2.12. Experiment with reducing the number of colours and observe the posterization.

  Download Photoshop file DMM3e-2-12.psd [1.7MB]

• p. 34, Pixels

  Blow up this file until you can see its individual pixels, as in Figure 2.15.

  Download Photoshop file DMM3e-2-15.psd [3.1MB]

• pp. 38–39, Vectors and Bitmaps

  You can use this high-resolution photograph to experiment with applying filters.

  Download Photoshop file DMM3e-2-18.psd [2.1MB]

  You can find the vector drawing also shown in Figure 2.18 at the Digital Media Tools support site.

• p. 41, Video

  See how the dull and entirely static images shown in Figure 2.21 turn into the lively movement of splashing water on a long-ago summer's evening.

• p. 42, Animation

  "Animate" means "bring to life". The animation is made up of 30 individual drawings, some of which are shown in Figure 2.22. Each one is just a still image, but when you click on the cannon...