Can’t relate each time your friends talk in jargons and use terms you’ve never heard before? To help you connect and join in your next tête-à-tête, we defined 15 of the terms that every multimedia arts graduate, like you, should know.
- Applet – is a small software app that can run on its own or inside another program. It is often built into web pages to make it interactive.
- Byte – is a series of bits that represent alphanumeric or coded values. It also serves as the measurement of computer storage and memory space.
- Color Depth – is either the number of bits used to show the color of a single pixel in a bitmap image or video frame buffer, or the number of bits used for each color of a single pixel.
- Digital Audio Workstation – is a computer equipped with high-quality sound card and programs used to edit and process digital audio professionally.
- D-1, D-2, and D-4 – are digital video formats used by high-end professional production facilities.
- Glyph – is a graphic symbol, alphabetic typeface, or numeric font that gives appearance or form to a character.
- Gouraud Shading – is the tricky method of creating realistic shading by breaking an object into polygons and shading them one by one.
- Greeking – is the use of dummy texts or symbols in places reserved for texts when planning the design or layout.
- Hologram – is a moving 3D image of a person or object usually created with photographic projection.
- Image Compression – is the process of reducing the size of a graphics file in bytes. Though reducing the file size can damage the quality and original data of the image through “lossy compression”, a technique called “lossless compression” can preserve the image’s quality and recreate the original file exactly.
- Kiosk – is a standalone multimedia presentation like the listening booths found in large record shops or interactive systems in museums.
- Onion Skinning – is an animation technique wherein the next frame is overlaid on the previous one so that the artist can draw changes with a direct reference.
- Ray Tracing – is a technique for presenting 3D images on a 2D display by tracing a path of light through pixels on an image plane.
- Rendering – is the act of applying and displaying lights, materials, textures, and colors on an object. It involves producing final output in 2D and 3D graphics programs.
- Sweetening – is the process of adding multi-track audio in sync with a final video presentation. This step is usually done on a video or audio post-production studio set up because of its complexity and hardware requirements.
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