Principles of digital multimedia
Principles of Digital Multimedia is a technical book designed for graphic designers, designers, and students who want to truly understand the fundamentals of contemporary multimedia language.
It doesn't just teach the use of tools, but analyzes the principles behind images, sound, video, interfaces, animation, and digital visual communication, connecting technological, perceptual, and design aspects.
The volume approaches multimedia as a complex system in which aesthetics, technique, and function are continuously intertwined, offering a structured and informed vision of the digital project.
The goal is to provide the reader not only with operational skills, but above all with a deep understanding of why things work the way they do, so as to transform the use of software into authentic design skills.
Index
PART 0 — Introduction
Introduction to digital multimedia
Principles of generic compression
PART 1 — Signals, perception and representation
Signals and sampling
Digital coding: bit, byte, quantization
Compression, formats and metadata
Physics of sound and psychoacoustics
Light and visual perception
Colorimetry
Display
PART 2 — Digital Audio
Audio
Audio processing
PART 3 — Digital Image
Raster graphics
Image processing
Computer vision
PART 4 — Vector image
Vector graphics
Text
PART 5 — Digital Video
Video
Streaming
Appendix
APPENDIX A — Internet
Computer networks
World Wide Web
Web security
Protection and management of digital content
APPENDIX B—Mathematics
Mathematical Tools for Multimedia
Vectors
Probability
Statistics
Trigonometry
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