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Digital Media UCF
Final exam review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are three things a computer does? | Stores and retrieves data, manages communications network, and manipulates and generates text |
| What was the first spreadsheet program? | VisiCalc |
| Who created the first mouse? | Macintosh |
| What are examples of physical media? | Floppy disk, hard drive, |
| What is data? | Anything we turn into digital media, like pictures, songs, videos, etc. |
| What does LAN stand for? | Local Area Network |
| What is analog? | Measuring data through a constant stream of information |
| What is digital? | Measuring data through discrete points at discrete levels |
| What is the smallest unit of data? | A bit |
| What are two types of protocols? | POP3: Post Office Protocol, allows us to receive mail. SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, allows us to send mail |
| What is a computer network? | Two or more computers |
| What are the three parts to a network | The hub, the node, and the link |
| What is John von Neumann's architecture? | Fetch, code, execute |
| What is ASCII | American Standards Code for Information Interchange |
| Who invented the first microprocessor? | Intel |
| What did Bill Gates create? | BASIC, a computer language |
| What does GUI stand for? | Graphical User Interface |
| What does FTP stand for? | File Transfer Protocol |
| What does HTTP stand for? | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| What do you use image compression for? | To reduce file size |
| What is lossless? | It gives an exact copy of the file, but still compresses it |
| What is lossy? | A file compression that discards some parts of the file. |
| What is a beziere curve? | A smooth curve in a vector graphic with four points |
| What is a codec? | Compression decompression |
| What is a MIDI? | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| What is a BITMAP? | A graphic that records a value for every pixel in the image |
| What do depth cues do? | They let us know that there is space in a picture |
| What are some types of depth cues? | Overlap: where things overlap to indicate distance. Textual diffusion: having things in the distance be blurry to show distance. |
| What is sound? | Air molecules moving about in the air |
| What is dithering? | Adding noise to an image |
| What is CSS? | Cascading Style Sheets |
| What is amplitude? | It measures volume and loudness, is measured in decibels. |
| What is frequency? | It measures tone and pitch and is measured in Hertz. |
| What is XML? | A structure for holding content; you can create your own tags in this language. |
| What is WAN? | Wide Area Network (the internet) |
| What is a URL? | A Uniform Resource Locator |
| What does HTML allow us to do? | HTML allows us to create pages. |
| What did Xerox do? | It created a lot of important technology but did nothing with it and therefore aren't as famous as they could be. |
| What was the Microsoft Interface Manager? | Windows |
| What is the technical side of Digital Media? | Coding, etc. |
| What is linear? | In order, chronologically |
| What is non-linear? | Can move whereever, no true order |
| What are the three distinguishing characteristics of HTML? | Resolution independent, hyper-text |
| What is W3C? | The World Wide Web Consortium. It is the protocol standards for the web. |
| What are the three colors your eye cones see? | Red, blue, and green. |
| What are the visual components of DM? | The apparent line in 2D is an edge. The apparent line in 3D is a contour. |
| When two planes intersect... | It's known as an intersection of planes |
| What is a linear motif? | Any image reduced to simple lines |
| What is an array? | Stores a group of values as one entity |
| What is a function? | Abstraction of script data as intructions |
| What is a variable? | Stores a value(s) |
| What is a computer program? | A list of instructions that directs a process. |
| What is an operating system? | The resident program that directs a process. |
| What is a copyright? | Protects the author's original works. |
| What are trademarks? | What protects the logos or designs of a company |
| What are patents? | What protects the inventions a person or company makes |
| What are tradesecrets? | The secrets a company wants to keep hidden, like the Coke formula |
| What are three ways to change brightness and tone? | Reflect control: before. Exposure,after. Incident control, with lights themselves. |
| What are psychoacoustics? | The perception of sound differs from what is actually heard |
| What is rotoscoping? | Marking individual frames of an animation (any Disney animated movie) |
| What is keying? | Portions of one video inside of another. Like the weatherman. |
| What are logical pixels? | Data that describes color at one point. |
| What are physical pixels? | Pixels on a printer or computer monitor |
| What did Ben Crosby tall about? | One-to-one and many-to-many. Or land, sea, to sky. |
| What did Marshall McClellan say? | The medium is the message |
| What are paired tags? And unpaired tags? | Paired are tags with a beginning and closing tag <img></img> and unpaired only has the opening tag <img> |
| What are HTML mark-up codes? | They are the tags. |
| What does it mean if a program is divided into units? | It is object oriented? |
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