Lecture 1 - Multimedia and Graphics Flashcards
EPS/EPSF
Encapsulated Postscript - vector
JPG/JPEG/JPE
Joint Photographic Experts Group - bitmapped
CDR
CorelDraw - metafile, bitmapped, and/or vector-based file created by Microsoft
DWG
Autocad - vector
TIF/TIFF
Tagged Image File Formats
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format - bitmapped
BMP
Windows Bitmap - vector
PIC
PC Paint - bitmapped format that contains diff image sizes for each photograph
PCD
Photo CD - vector graphics format used with CAD and drawing programs
PSD
Photoshop - bitmapped, creates a very compat file easy to transmit across networks
WMF
Windows Metafile
Uptime
how long a server stays up
Panther
name of computer “server” that hosts uwo website
FTP
file transfer protocol ex. filezilla, WinSCP; some file transfer programs do not connect to all servers
Shell client
can type in commands by hand - but it’s in Unix (S-FTP using secure shell)
File transfer client
allows us to transfer files to panther
Horseshoe
checkmarks shaped in an upside down “u”
Artifacts
noise/specs around the image
Lossless compression
no data discarded during compression, quality kept
Lossy compression
data is discarded each time file compressed ; quality degrades
Interlacing technique
how images downloaded to your screen (applies to gif files); process by which image is drawn in a series of passes rather than all at the same time (see full image, gets clearer as downloads)
interpolation
when bitmapped images are enlarged (resampled) and the computer adds new pixels, guessing on the colour to colour the new pixels based on surrounding pixels
Internet
a collection of local, regional, national and international comptuer networks that are linked together to exchange data and distribute processing tasks
host
a computer on the internet that provides services such as web pages, emails, web storage
ISP
internet service provider ex. Western, Bell, Rogers, Costco; company that maintans an internet host computer providing internet access and USER ACCOUNT for accessing INTERNET, EMAIL, AND WEBSPACE to host website
IP Address
Internet Protocol that uniquely identifies each computer/device connected to the internet
dotted-quad
most popular way of denoting ip addresses (ex. 192.102.249.3) ; each quad must be between 0-255
domain name
the text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer on the internet; 2 parts - identifies the NETWORK and the specific COMPUTER
URL
Uniform Resource Locator - an address of a web document on a computer